Comparison of clinical features and prognosis in patients with cryptogenic and secondary organizing pneumonia

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Table 6 Clinical outcomes in patients with SOP who were and were not treated with steroids

	Non-steroid using group (n = 38)	Steroid using group (n = 31)	Total (n = 69)	P
OP outcome
Improve	32 (84.2)	24 (77.4)	56 (81.2)	0.118
Fail	2 (5.3)	6 (19.4)	8 (11.6)
f/u loss	4 (10.5)	1 (3.2)	5 (7.2)
In-hospital mortality	1 (2.6)	3 (9.7)	4 (5.8)	0.213
30 day mortality	1 (2.6)	2 (6.5)	3 (4.3)	0.499
Recur	2 (5.3)	8 (25.8)	10 (14.5)	0.035*

Data are presented as number (%)
SOP secondary organizing pneumonia, OP organizing pneumonia
*P < 0.05 by Fisher’s exact tests for comparisons between the steroid using and non-steroid using SOP subgroups

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