Table 4.
Age and cause of death in 17 patients who died during clinical follow-up according to follow-up intestinal biopsy status
| Case | Mucosal recovery/IELs (%)* |
Duration from last biopsy to death, years |
Age at death/gender |
Cause of death |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No/80 | 0.3 | 70/M | Enteropathy-type T-cell lymphoma |
| 2 | No/80 | 0.5 | 74/M | Enteropathy-type T-cell lymphoma |
| 3 | No/100 | 0.5 | 72/M | Heart failure secondary to giant cell myocarditis |
| 4 | No/60 | 0.6 | 61/M | Progressive inflammatory- destructive central nervous system disorder (autopsy diagnosis) |
| 5 | Yes/20 | 0.9 | 77/M | Interstitial pneumonia |
| 6 | No/60 | 1.0 | 68/M | Metastatic lung cancer |
| 7 | No/60 | 1.1 | 67/M | Streptococcal meningitis |
| 8 | No/100 | 1.3 | 65/F | Refractory celiac disease type 2 with enteropathy- type T-cell lymphoma |
| 9 | No/80 | 1.4 | 49/F | Diffuse anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (nodal site) |
| 10 | No/40 | 2.1 | 77/F | Hepatocarcinoma |
| 11 | Unknown | 2.9 | 84/F | Community-acquired bacterial pneumonia |
| 12 | Unknown | 2.9 | 50/F | Systemic lupus erythematous |
| 13 | No/100 | 3.1 | 66/F | Metastatic neuroendocrine carcinoid of the rectum |
| 14 | Unknown | 4.3 | 54/M | Sepsis secondary to acute cholecystitis |
| 15 | Unknown | 5.6 | 74/F | Acute lower extremity ischemia and sepsis |
| 16 | Unknown | - | 78/M | Acute myelogenous leukemia |
| 17 | Unknown | - | 61/M | Severe malnutrition with emaciation and anasarca |
*
IELs (%), intraepithelial lymphocytes per 100 epithelial cells