Perioperative neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio as a predictor of poor cardiac surgery patient outcomes

Autor: Mihalis Argiriou, Stavros Theologou, Hero Brokalaki, Anastasia A Chatziefstratiou, Athina Patelarou, Konstantinos Giakoumidakis, Christina Katzilieri, Nikolaos V Fotos
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Pragmatic and Observational Research
ISSN: 1179-7266
DOI: 10.2147/por.s130560
Popis: Konstantinos Giakoumidakis,1 Nikolaos V Fotos,2 Athina Patelarou,3 Stavros Theologou,1 Mihalis Argiriou,4 Anastasia A Chatziefstratiou,2 Christina Katzilieri,5 Hero Brokalaki2 1Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit, “Evangelismos” General Hospital of Athens, 2Faculty of Nursing, School of Healthcare Sciences, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, 3Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, 4Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, “Evangelismos” General Hospital of Athens, 5Intensive Care Unit, “Korgalenio – Benakio Hellenic Red Cross” General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the association between the perioperative neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and cardiac surgery patient outcomes.Patients and methods: A retrospective cohort study of 145 patients who underwent cardiac surgery in a tertiary hospital of Athens, Greece, from January to March 2015, was conducted. By using a structured short questionnaire, this study reviewed the electronic hospital database and the medical and nursing patient records for data collection purposes. The statistical significance was two-tailed, and p-values
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