ArticleAnnals of thoracic surgery short reports2024
Usefulness of Preoperative Prognostic Nutritional Index in Secondary Spontaneous Pneumothorax.
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- Impact of prognostic nutritional index on postoperative outcome of acute empyema.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- The Value of Systemic Inflammatory Index and Nutritional Marker in Predicting Acute Calculus Cholecystitis and Its Severity.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: The prognostic nutritional index has been identified as a predictor of postoperative outcomes in various fields. We investigated the usefulness of the prognostic nutritional index as a risk factor for postoperative complications in secondary spontaneous pneumothorax. Methods: In this retrospective study, patients who underwent surgery for secondary spontaneous pneumothorax were reviewed. The associations among the prognostic nutritional index, body mass index, and performance status were examined, and risk factors for postoperative complications were investigated in a multivariate analysis. In the subgroup analysis, on the basis of the receiver operating characteristics, we divided patients into high- and low-prognostic nutritional index groups and investigated the utility of the prognostic nutritional index for postoperative complications. Results: Of 91 patients who underwent surgery for secondary spontaneous pneumothorax, 34 patients with postoperative complications were included. The prognostic nutritional index was significantly positively and negatively correlated with body mass index ( Conclusions: The prognostic nutritional index may be useful for evaluating the severity of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax in preoperative patients and may be a risk for postoperative complications.
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