Overall survival in Chilean patients with lymphoma and human immunodeficiency virus: A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

People living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH) still face high morbidity and mortality resulting from lymphoma.

Aim

To describe a population of PLWH and lymphoma in a Chilean public hospital and compare the overall survival (OS) with a previously reported cohort from the same institution.

Methods

Retrospective single-center cohort study. All the patients diagnosed between 2010 and 2017 were included. Demographic and clinical variables were obtained from medical records. The overall survival (OS) was estimated in treated patients from diagnosis until death or October 2020. The OS was then compared with a cohort of patients diagnosed between 1992 and 2008.

Main results

Eighty-four patients were included. The most common histological types wer

SUBMITTER: Benavente R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9605900 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature