qosmio

I think this abstract is confusingly worded. I don't think it is saying that 46% of all patients died. That sentence is referring to the sentence previous, which states a 17% mortality across all studies at the 41 month mark. Then it goes into more detail by saying that nearly half (the 46%) of that 17% didn't make it past the first 12 months. There is no way the conclusion of this abstract would state that BLA is "relatively safe" if half the subjects died. Mortality (23 studies, 690 patients) was 17% (0–88) at a follow-up of 41 months (14–294). Remarkably, 46% of the patients died in the first year after surgery.