Comorbidity among HHT patients and their controls in a 20 years follow-up period

Table 3 Infections in Joints and bones and PAVM among cases and controls

	Screening PAVM	PAVM	Age at inclusion	Age at infection	Type of infection LPR	Manual validation
Patient 1	Yes	Small PAVM discovered at time of infection. Embolisation performed	51	69	Osteomyelitis vertebrae	Same
Patient 2	No thanks	?	61	68	Staphylococci, Arthritis and polyarthritis	Same
patient 3	No thanks	?	32	34	Osteomyelitis and periostitis in the mandible and maxillae	False registration, patient excluded from analysis
Patient 4	Yes	No	56	68	Infectious spondylitis purulent intervertebral Discitis	Same
Patient 5	Yes	PAVMs discovered after infection	58	65	Infectious spondylitis or vertebral Osteomyelitis	Same
Patient 6	Yes	Large PAVMs, did not wish to be treated	71	77	Osteomyelitis without specification/ Chronic osteomyelitis,	same
Control 1	Not relevant	–	49	56	Borrelia arthritis	Patient seen in other hospital

Details on all infections in Joints and bones (including type) and presence of PAVM as registered (LPR) in 6 patients and 1 control. In the clinical data patient 3 was excluded as the registration was false. Furthermore, the infection in the control was not identified in the clinical data as the patient was seen in another hospital

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