Volume 31, Number 5—May 2025
Synopsis
Comprehensive Survival Analysis of Alveolar Echinococcosis Patients, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 1973–2022
Ansgar Deibel1
, Yanick Kindler1, Rubens Mita, Soleen Ghafoor, Cordula Meyer zu Schwabedissen, Barbara Brunner-Geissmann, Alexander Schweiger, Felix Grimm, Michael Reinehr, Achim Weber, Cäcilia S. Reiner, Andreas E. Kremer, Henrik Petrowsky, Pierre-Alain Clavien, Peter Deplazes, Stefanie von Felten, and Beat Müllhaupt
, Yanick Kindler1, Rubens Mita, Soleen Ghafoor, Cordula Meyer zu Schwabedissen, Barbara Brunner-Geissmann, Alexander Schweiger, Felix Grimm, Michael Reinehr, Achim Weber, Cäcilia S. Reiner, Andreas E. Kremer, Henrik Petrowsky, Pierre-Alain Clavien, Peter Deplazes, Stefanie von Felten, and Beat Müllhaupt
Table 2
Treatments used for alveolar echinococcosis patients, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 1973–2022*
| Treatment | Value |
|---|---|
| No. patients |
334 |
| Surgical therapy | 151 (45.2) |
| Time to surgery, mo, median (IQR) | 1 (0–4) |
| Surgery aim | |
| Palliative | 25 (7.5) |
| After >12 mo | 5 (1.5) |
| Curative | 126 (37.7) |
| After >12 mo | 5 (1.5) |
| Resection margins | |
| R0 | 105 (31.4) |
| R1 | 21 (6.3) |
| Surgery type | |
| Segmentectomy | 51 (15.3) |
| Hemihepatectomy | 53 (15.9) |
| Extended hemihepatectomy | 17 (5.1) |
| Liver transplantation | 3 (0.9) |
| Nonhepatic surgery |
2 (0.6) |
| Benzimidazole drug therapy | 315 (94.3) |
| Time to benzimidazole start, mo, median (IQR) | 1 (0–2) |
| >12 mo | 17 (5.1) |
| Benzimidazole drug type | |
| Albendazole | 241 (72.2) |
| Mebendazole | 74 (22.2) |
| Clinical setting | |
| After curatively intended surgery | 122 (36.5) |
| R0 margin | 97 (29.0) |
| Duration, mo, median (IQR) | 26 (23–31.5) |
| R1 margin | 21 (6.3) |
| Duration, mo, median (IQR) | 79 (44–152) |
| Palliative surgery and nonresected | 212 (63.5) |
*Values are no. (%) except as indicated.
1These first authors contributed equally to this article.
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