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. 2022 Dec 8;12(2):e220185. doi: 10.2217/cer-2022-0185

Table 5. . Cardiac or renal involvement and most frequent diagnosis (admitting and primary), stratified by discharge status.

  Discharge status Adult AL amyloidosis patients
n (%) = 1341 (100%)
p-value
  In-hospital death
n (%) = 107 (8.0%)
Discharged alive
n (%) = 1234 (92.0%)
   
Cardiac or renal involvement, n (Col%) (Row%)       <0.001
  Cardiac and renal 85 (79.4) [11.6] 649 (52.6) [88.4] 734 (54.7) [100.0]  
  Cardiac only 7 (6.5) [4.0] 169 (13.7) [96.0] 176 (13.1) [100.0]  
  Renal only 13 (12.1) [4.2] 296 (24.0) [95.8] 309 (23.0) [100.0]  
  No cardiac or renal involvement 2 (1.9) [1.6] 120 (9.7) [98.4] 122 (9.1) [100.0]  
Most frequent admitting diagnosis, by cohort, n (%)        
  Unknown 8 (7.5) 125 (10.1)
  Shortness of breath 10 (9.4) 98 (7.9)
  Sepsis, unspecified organisms 9 (8.4)
  Light chain (AL) amyloidosis 72 (5.8)
  Acute kidney failure, unspecified 65 (5.3)
Most frequent primary diagnosis, by cohort, n (%)      
  Light chain (AL) amyloidosis 18 (16.8) 222 (18.0)
  Sepsis, unspecified organisms 12 (11.2)
  Hypertensive heart and CKD w/HF and stage 1–4 CKD or unspecified CKD 11 (10.3) 73 (5.9)
  Acute kidney failure, unspecified 6 (5.6) 70 (5.7)
  Organ-limited amyloidosis 6 (5.6)
  MM not having achieved remission 67 (5.4)

AL: Systemic amyloid light chain; CKD: Chronic kidney disease; HF: Heart failure; MM: Multiple myeloma; SD: Standard deviation.