Clinical study
Long-term survival of patients with Wegener's granulomatosis from the American College of Rheumatology Wegener's granulomatosis classification criteria cohort*

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OBJECTIVE:

To determine survivorship in Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) in a well-defined multicenter cohort.

METHODS:

Follow-up was obtained for 77 of the 85 patients enrolled in the 1990 American College of Rheumatology vasculitis classification study.

RESULTS:

There were 28 deaths (10 females and 18 males) among the 77 patients available for follow-up. Standardized mortality ratios (SMR) were calculated with mortality data from the general population and from this group of patients with WG (an SMR of 1 indicates that expected and observed survival are identical). Overall survivorship among patients with WG was substantially reduced in this cohort (SMR = 4.685 ± 0.65; for females SMR = 6.814 ± 1.571; for males SMR = 3.998 ± 0.69).

CONCLUSION:

The life expectancy of patients with WG is reduced compared with the general population.

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Supported in part by NIH grant AM-21393 to ARAMIS and NIH grant RR-00585 to Mayo Clinic and Foundation.