Demirkol et al. (1) compared the mean platelet volume (MPV) in the plasma of patients with cardiac syndrome X, patients with coronary artery disease and healthy controls. They observed that the MPV in patients with cardiac syndrome X and coronary artery disease was significantly higher than that observed in the control group. There were no significant differences in the MPV between the cardiac ...

We evaluated the relationship between mean platelet volume (MPV) and characteristics of 10,577 cord blood (CB) units in a public CB bank in Korea. Blood group O has the highest MPV (P = 0.002). MPV correlated with CB volume (r = 0.121), Hb (r = 0.377), WBC (r = 0.111), TNCs (r = 0.110), CD34+ cell (r = 0.174), CD34+ cells/TNCs (r = 0.157), gestational age (r = -0.102), and birth weight (r = 0.0...

Objectives: This study aims to determine the association between obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) caused by adenotonsillar hypertrophy and mean platelet volume (MPV) and MPV/platelet count ratio in children, and to evaluate the impact of adenotonsillectomy on these two parameters. Patients and Methods: This prospective study consisted of 73 child patients (38 boys, 35 girls; mean age 8.6...

INTRODUCTION Many noninvasive tests have been studied for the diagnosis and determining the liver fibrosis score (LFS). In this study, we aimed to research the correlation of mean platelet volume (MPV) and stage of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB). PATIENTS AND METHODS Fifty-nine patients with CHB were enrolled retrospectively into the study. Age-sex matched 25 health...

I recently read with a great interest the article by Sakalli and associates.1 They compared plasma levels of mean platelet volume (MPV) before and after renal transplant to investigate the possible role of determining renovascular thrombosis. In their study, no patients had any thrombotic events and/or renal allograft loss. Because of lack of a second group (composed of patients with renovascul...

Purpose: To research association between Mean Platelet Volume (MPV) and tumor stage and grade in non-metastatic renal cell carcinomas in circumstances of hypoxia, thromboembolism, and ischemia, based on MPV increase. Material and methods: Data of 104 non-metastatic patients, in whom nephrectomy was done and whose pathology resulted in renal cell carcinoma, have been evaluated retrospectively. T...

Objective: Increased platelet activation has also been suggested to play a pivotal role in the development and progression of inflammation. Recently, mean platelet volume (MPV) has been investigated as a simple inflammatory marker in several diseases and it was found that MPV can be used as a marker of inflammatory disease. Therefore this study was designed to investigate and compare the values...

BACKGROUND Thrombocytopenia has been shown to predict mortality. We hypothesize that platelet indices may be more useful prognostic indicators. Our study subjects were children one month to 14 years old admitted to our hospital. AIM To determine whether platelet count, plateletcrit (PCT), mean platelet volume (MPV) and platelet distribution width (PDW) and their ratios can predict mortality i...

BACKGROUND We investigated and compared the capacity of mean platelet volume (MPV) and other inflammatory markers in detecting Crohn's disease (CD) activity and differentiating CD patients from healthy controls. METHODS MPV, C-reactive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and white blood cells were measured in 61 CD patients and 50 healthy subjects. Disease activity was assesse...

OBJECTIVE Mean platelet volume (MPV) plays a pivotal role in the pathophysiology of atherosclerotic disease. Thoracic aortic intima-media thickness (IMT) was reported as an earlier marker of preclinical atherosclerosis than carotid IMT. However, the relationship between MPV and aortic IMT was not investigated. We aimed to assess the relationship between thoracic aortic IMT and MPV in patients u...