作者
Konstantinos Giakoumidakis, Nikolaos V Fotos, Athina Patelarou, Stavros Theologou, Mihalis Argiriou, Anastasia A Chatziefstratiou, Christina Katzilieri, Hero Brokalaki
发表日期
2017/2/15
期刊
Pragmatic and Observational Research
页码范围
9-14
出版商
Taylor & Francis
简介
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 <0.05 were considered significant. The statistical analysis was performed with Mann–Whitney U test and Spearman’s correlation coefficient, by using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences software (IBM SPSS 21.0 for Windows).
Results
The increased preoperative levels of NLR were associated with significantly higher mortality, both …
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