Research Article
Incidence, Mortality, and Predictive Factors of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Table 4
Primary cause of death.
| Cause | Male | Female | Overall | () | () | () |
| Malignancies | 2 | 11 | 13 | Hepatocellular carcinoma | 1 | 8 | 9 | Others | 1 | 3 | 4 | Lung cancer | 1 | | | Malignant lymphoma | | 1 | | Uterine corpus cancer | | 1 | | Skin cancer | | 1 | | Liver failure (nonmalignant) | 1 | 8 | 9 | Others | 1 | 8 | 9 | Subarachnoid hemorrhage | 1 | | | Heart failure | | 3 | | Pneumonia | | 1 | | Superior mesenteric artery thrombosis | | 1 | | Gastrointestinal bleeding | | 1 | | Sepsis | | 1 | | Acute heart disease | | 1 | |
| Total | 4 | 27 | 31 |
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n: numbers of patients.
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