Table 2 Causes of death in the Bonn cohort.

From: Survival of HIV/HCV co-infected patients before introduction of HCV direct acting antivirals (DAA)

Number of deaths

HIV

23 (13.1%)

HIV/HCV

23 (15.8%)

Causes of death

Infections/sepsis

4# (17.4%)

3 (13.0%)

Cardiovascular diseases

6 (26.1%)

3 (13.0%)

Non-AIDS-Malignancies

1 (4.3%)

Lung cancer

2 (8.7%)

1 (4.3%)

Liver related deaths

1 (4.3%)

8 (34.8%)

p = 0.03

Liver failure

1 (4.3%)

2 (8.7%)

OLTX

2 (8.7%)

HCC

4 (14.4%)

Suicide/accidents

2* (8.7%)

 

Intoxication

2 (8.7%)

1 (4.3%)

AIDS defining conditions

3 (13.0%)

3 (13.0%)

Pneumocytis jeroveci pneumonia

2 (8.7%)

2 (8.7%)

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma

1 (4.3%)

Castleman’s disease

1 (4.3%)

Cryptosporidiasis

Other causes

2 (8.7%)

Renal failure

1 (4.3%)

Bleeding due to Osler’s disease

1 (4.3%)

Unknown causes of death

3 (13.0%)

1 (4.3%)

  1. *One patient committed suicide after a diagnosis of lung cancer.
  2. #One patient died from combined MRSA sepsis and liver failure; a second patient had lung cancer before death from sepsis.
  3. OLTX: liver transplantation, HCC: hepatocellular carcinoma.