SynthesisCanadian journal of gastroenterology & hepatology2022
Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio and Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis among Cirrhotic Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
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- Predictive value of neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio for clinical outcomes in liver cirrhosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- Cirrhosis-associated intracranial shunting lesions: illustrative case.Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons · 2026Article
- Higher NLR Values Can Predict Gram-Negative Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis and a High In-Hospital Mortality Rate in Patients with Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Literature Review of Prognostic Factors in Secondary Generalized Peritonitis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Prognostic value of platelet volume indices in heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.American journal of blood research · 2025Review
- Correlation between neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio and C-reactive protein in diverse disease states in hospitalized patients.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2024Article
- Development and validation of an explainable machine learning model for predicting multidimensional frailty in hospitalized patients with cirrhosis.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2024Article
- Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio, platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio associated with 28-day all-cause mortality in septic patients with coronary artery disease: a retrospective analysis of MIMIC-IV database.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Observational
- Bacterial profile, drug resistance pattern, clinical and laboratory predictors of ascites infection in cirrhosis patients.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Therapeutic targeting of PLK1 in TERT promoter-mutant hepatocellular carcinoma.Clinical and translational medicine · 2024Article
- Symptomatic Liver Cyst Successfully Treated with Transgastric Drainage and Sclerotherapy Using Minocycline Hydrochloride.Case reports in gastrointestinal medicine · 2024Article
- The Significance of Preoperative Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR), Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio (PLR), and Systemic Inflammatory Index (SII) in Predicting Severity and Adverse Outcomes in Acute Calculous Cholecystitis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- The Value of Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio to Identify Bacterial Infection and Predict Short-Term Mortality in Patients with Acutely Decompensated Cirrhosis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio predicts 30-, 90-, and 180-day readmissions of patients with hepatic encephalopathy.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Incidence of neurological complications following pediatric heart surgery and its association with neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio.Health science reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: The goal of this systematic review and meta-analysis was analyzing published studies on the role of neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in infection and spatially spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) among cirrhotic patients. Methods: PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus were searched until May 24, 2022. The Newcastle-Ottawa scale was used for quality assessment. Results: Of 14 studies included in our study, six studies were on infection with 2786 hospitalized cirrhotic patients, of whom 934 developed an infection. Other studies were on SBP with 1573 cirrhotic patients with ascites, of whom 557 developed SBP. The pooled results showed that there was no difference in NLR levels between hospitalized cirrhotic patients who developed infection compared to those who did not (random-effects model: SMD = 0.63, 95% CI = -0.01-1.27, Conclusion: Our results support NLR to be a valid biomarker that can be readily integrated into clinical settings to help in the prevention and prediction of SBP among cirrhotic patients.
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