ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2021
Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as a predictor of complicated acute diverticulitis: A retrospective cohort study.
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- Neutrophil- and Platelet-Lymphocyte Ratio as Biomarkers of Severity in Complicated Diverticular Disease.Cureus · 2024Article
- The role of infectious parameters in the early prediction of complicated colonic diverticulitis.Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES · 2024Article
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- Hemogram-Derived Ratios in the Prognosis of Acute Diverticulitis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Right-sided acute diverticulitis in the West: experience at a university hospital in Argentina.Annals of coloproctology · 2023Article
- Utility of monocyte distribution width in the differential diagnosis between simple and complicated diverticulitis: a retrospective cohort study.BMC gastroenterology · 2023Article
- A Retrospective Study on Use of Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio as a Prognostic Measurement to Assess Acute Diverticulitis.ANZ journal of surgeryObservational
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Abstract
introductionCurrently, the debate on the usefulness of Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) as a predictor of complications in acute diverticulitis (AD) remains open, especially, the relation to the severity of the disease, the clinical impact, and the necessity of minimally invasive or emergency surgical procedures. On the other hand, its diagnostic efficacy has not been studied even in our field. The objective of the present study was to determine the utility and diagnostic precision of NLR in complicated acute diverticulitis (cAD).
methodsDescriptive, retrospective cohort and analytical study. Patients older than 18 years with a diagnosis of AD were included, from 2013 to 2018. Demographic variables, days of hospitalization, leukocyte count, neutrophils, lymphocytes, ESR, CRP, and NLR were analyzed. The sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of cAD were determined using ROC curves.
results325 patients were included. Of these 196 (60%) were men. The median age was 52 years. A total of 30 (9%) were categorized as cAD. The patients with cAD presented mean values in the leukocyte count (14.02 ± 4.49 × 10
conclusionNLR is a predictive marker of cAD, with a cut-off point of 4.2 being the best diagnostic approach.
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