Table 2.

Causes of mortality in AL subjects

Subject	Cause	Interval from Echo (months)
1	Multiorgan failure	0.9
2	Renal failure	1.0
3	Sudden cardiac death	2.8
4	Pulmonary and heart failure	18.7
5	Multiorgan failure	1.4
6	Electromechanical dissociation, heart failure	2.5
7	Refractory multiple myeloma	18.5
8	Multiorgan failure	47.7
9	Unknown*	4.5
10	Heart failure	6.4
11	Sudden cardiac death	1.1
12	Pulseless electrical activity	36.8
13	Heart failure, ventricular tachycardia, pneumonia	1.4
14	Heart failure, ventricular tachycardia	0.1
15	Unknown*	14.1
16	Progressive multiple myeloma	9
17	Sepsis	3.5
18	Heart failure, ventricular tachycardia, sepsis	3.2
19	Ventricular tachycardia, heart block	1.4
20	Multiorgan failure, polymicrobial sepsis	4.4
21	Multiorgan failure	3.4
22	Multiorgan failure	2.3
23	Multiorgan failure	0.9

^*death verified from Social Security Death Index