Table 3.

Period from Diagnosis to Treatment and from Treatment to Death of All 16 Patients (previously Reported Patients and Our Patients) with Thrombotic Microangiopathies Accompanied with Polymyositis/dermatomyositis.

Pt	Outcome	From thrombocytopenia to treatment	From TMA diagnosis to treatment	From TMA onset to death	Reference
Treatment-effective group
1	death	N/A	N/A	15 days	6
2	alive	0 day	0 day		7
3	alive	N/A	N/A		8
4	death	0 day	0 day	8 months	9
5	alive	18 days	0 day		Present case (Patient1)
6	death	0 day	0 day	151 days	Present case (Patient2)
Treatment-ineffective group
7	death	N/A	2 days	11 days	10
8	death	45 days	3 days	10 days	11
9	death	0 day	0 day	7 days	12
10	death	N/A	N/A	5 days	13
11	death	5 days	0 day	17 days	14
12	death	N/A	N/A	4 months	15
13	death	N/A	N/A	N/A	16
14	death	N/A	N/A	N/A	17
15	death	11 days	0 day	2 days	18
16	death	14 days	1 day	58 days	Present case (Patient3)

TMA: thrombotic microangiopathies