Volume 9, Number 3—March 2003
Research
European Echinococcosis Registry: Human Alveolar Echinococcosis, Europe, 1982–2000
Petra Kern*
, Karine Bardonnet†, Elisabeth Renner‡, Herbert Auer§, Zbigniew Pawlowski¶, Rudolf W. Ammann‡, Dominique A. Vuitton#, Peter Kern**, and the European Echinococcosis Registry
, Karine Bardonnet†, Elisabeth Renner‡, Herbert Auer§, Zbigniew Pawlowski¶, Rudolf W. Ammann‡, Dominique A. Vuitton#, Peter Kern**, and the European Echinococcosis Registry
Table 5
Vital status of patients with alveolar echinococcosis, as of December 2000
| Yr of first diagnosis | No. of patients |
Interval between diagnosis and death (yrs) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alive | Lost to follow-up | Deceased | ||
| Until 1980 |
63 |
4 |
37 |
4–29 |
| 1981–1985 |
73 |
11 |
28 |
<1–14 |
| 1986–1990 |
84 |
9 |
34 |
<1–10 |
| 1991–1995 |
85 |
6 |
10 |
1–4 |
| 1996–2000 |
103 |
2 |
10 |
<1–1 |
| Total | 408 | 32 | 119 | |
1The European Echinococcosis Registry (EurEchinoReg) is a surveillance network for human alveolar echinococcosis coordinated by D.A. Vuitton (France) and P. Kern (Germany). Registration of human cases is organized by H. Auer (Austria), Y. Carlier (Belgium), L. Kolarova (Czech Republic), K. Bardonnet (France), P. Kern (Germany), P.S. Craig (Great Britain), I. Prousalidis (Greece), A. Siracusano (Italy), J. van der Giessen (Netherlands), Z. Pawlowski (Poland), E. Renner, R.W. Ammann (Switzerland), and N. Altintas (Turkey).
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