Table 5.
Reported Follow-up and Causes of Death in Included Thoracolumbar Spinal Cord Injury Studies.
| Studies | No. patients | Duration of shorter follow up period | Mortality during shorter follow up period | Duration of longer follow-up Period | Mortality during of longer follow-up period | No. deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Krause 1997 | 141 | - | - | 14.3±7.8 yr.post-injury 11 yr. follow-up | 19 | 19 |
| Levy 1998 | 67 | - | - | Hospital discharge - >1year | 13 | 13 |
| Yeo 1998 | 650 | <18 months | 35 | >18 months | 78 | 113 |
| O’Connor 2005 | 1355 | 10-year | 92 | 92 | ||
| Lidal 2007 | 205 | - | - | median 27 years (range 20–39 years) | 53 | 53 |
| Leal-Filho 2008 | 189 | (In-hospital) | 0 | - | - | 0 |
| Furlan 2009 | 87 | (In-hospital) | 2 | - | - | 2 |
| Divanoglou 2010 | 48 | - | - | After 1st week to 1 year | 3 | 3 |
| Furlan 2010 | 136 | - | - | In the 1st year | 6 | 6 |
| Hagen 2010 | 188 | - | - | Mean 33 years (7-56) | 59 | 59 |
| Ning 2010 | 248 | In-hospital | 0 | - | - | 0 |
| Varma 2010 | 715 | (In-hospital) | 74 | - | - | 74 |
| Krause2011 | 402 | - | - | minimum of 1 yr. post injury (Mean mortality follow-up: 10.4±7.3) | 84 | 84 |
| Krause2011 | 3990 | - | - | Average of 7.7 yrs. post-injury (>1 yr.) | 402 | 402 |
| Ahoniemi 2011 | 811 | - | - | The median length of follow-upwas 12.5 years (interquartile range (IQR) 5.5–19.8 years). | 163 | 163 |
| Kawu 2011 | 94 | <6 months | 32 | - | - | 32 |
| Grossman 2012 | 56 | In hospital | 0 | - | - | 0 |
| Middleton.2012 | 938 | ≤12M | 38 | >12M | 162 | 200 |
| Cao 2013 | 4042 | - | - | 7.7 years posst inury with the averagefollow-up 9.3 years | 530 | 530 |
| Nwankwo 2013 | 40 | ≤6 months | 3 | - | - | 3 |
| Sabre2013 | 205 | <12M | 12 | 12M-2yr>2yr | 329 | 44 |
| Löfvenmark 2014 | 20 | In-hospital | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Barman2014 | 367 | - | - | NAa | 93 | 93 |
| Hossain 2015 | 201 | In-hospital | 2 | 2-year | 23 | 25 |
| Total | 11205 | 197 | 977 | 1174 |
a
NA: not available