Bilateral adrenal enhancement revised—adrenal-to-spleen ratio as an appropriate mortality predictor

Neutrophil-to-Albumin Ratio as A Novel Predictor of Mortality in Patients with Sepsis

Background and Objective: Sepsis is a syndrome involving physiological, pathological, and biochemical abnormalities caused by infection. Very few studies have been performed to evaluate the prognostic value of the neutrophil-to-albumin ratio. The present study aimed to evaluate the neutrophil-to-albumin ratio in patients with sepsis admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). Materials and Meth...

Platelet count/spleen diameter ratio as a predictor of oesophageal varices in alcoholic cirrhosis.

Platelet count/spleen diameter ratio as a predictor of esophageal varices in cirrhotic patients.

This letter regards the very interesting paper published in Annals of Hepatology 2009; 8(4): 325-30 by Barrera, et al.1 The authors emphasize an important matter, which is the burden of frequently endoscopying cirrhotic patients in order to verifying for the presence of esophageal varices (EV) and indicating the proper prophylaxis to avoid bleeding. They evaluate the platelet count/spleen diame...

Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio Is an Independent Predictor for In-Hospital Mortality in Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke-associated immunosuppression and inflammation are increasingly recognized as factors that trigger infections and thus, potentially influence the outcome after stroke. Several studies demonstrated that elevated neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is a significant predictor of adverse outcomes in patients with ischemic stroke. However, little is known about the impa...

Liver graft-to-recipient spleen size ratio as a novel predictor of portal hyperperfusion syndrome in living donor liver transplantation.

Portal hyperperfusion in a small-size liver graft is one cause of posttransplant graft dysfunction. We retrospectively analyzed the potential risk factors predicting the development of portal hyperperfusion in 43 adult living donor liver transplantation recipients. The following were evaluated: age, body weight, native liver disease, spleen size, graft size, graft-to-recipient weight ratio (GRW...