and availability limit routine MR application in daily practice. Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), calculated by dividing the absolute count of neutrophils by that of lymphocytes in the peripheral blood, is easy to obtain. NLR proves to be a good
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The correlation of the neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio to clinical and imaging parameters in patients with thyroid eye disease
Xiaowen Zhang, Chen Han, Hongwei Wang, Xinghong Sun, Xin Dou, Xueying He, Di Wu, Shanmei Shen, Dalong Zhu, Xinlin Zhang, and Yan Bi
Prognostic role of lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio in pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms
Wentao Zhou, Tiantao Kuang, Xu Han, Wenqi Chen, Xuefeng Xu, Wenhui Lou, and Dansong Wang
the regional inflammatory responses in tumor microenvironment. Quite a few studies proved that preoperative systemic inflammation markers, such as neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), were associated with relapse
Preoperative inflammatory markers for predicting parathyroid carcinoma
Keiko Ohkuwa, Kiminori Sugino, Ryohei Katoh, Mitsuji Nagahama, Wataru Kitagawa, Kenichi Matsuzu, Akifumi Suzuki, Chisato Tomoda, Kiyomi Hames, Junko Akaishi, Chie Masaki, Kana Yoshioka, and Koichi Ito
reported to be prognostic predictive factors in various types of cancer. In particular, among these, the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) have been reported to be prognostic
Risk stratification in differentiated thyroid cancer with RAI-avid lung metastases
Keiko Ohkuwa, Kiminori Sugino, Mitsuji Nagahama, Wataru Kitagawa, Kenichi Matsuzu, Akifumi Suzuki, Chisato Tomoda, Kiyomi Hames, Junko Akaishi, Chie Masaki, and Koichi Ito
and worsened prognosis. Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), one of the indicators of inflammation and immunology, is easily measured via peripheral blood sampling and is reportedly useful as a prognosis index of various types of cancer ( 12 , 13
Value of circulating neutrophil elastase for detecting recurrence of differentiated thyroid cancer
Hyunjae Lee, Tae-Shin Kim, Ja-Yoon Gu, Mi Ran Yu, Seung-Eun Lee, Eun Sook Kim, and Hyun Kyung Kim
progression ( 9 ). Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio has been examined, in this perspective, for its prognostic value in patients with thyroid cancer, and studies have yielded conflicting results ( 30 ). During the inflammatory response, activated neutrophils
Prealbumin to fibrinogen ratio is closely associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy
Shufei Zang, Lei Shi, Jinying Zhao, Min Yang, Jun Liu, and Heyuan Ding
count (Automatic Blood Cell Analyzer, Sysmex XN9000), biochemical parameters test (Automatic Biochemical Analyzer, Roche Cobas 8000), and fibrinogen (FIB, CS5100, Sysmex Corporation) respectively. Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is the ratio of
Low muscle mass and high visceral fat mass predict mortality in patients hospitalized with moderate-to-severe COVID-19: a prospective study
Fabyan Esberard de Lima Beltrão, Daniele Carvalhal de Almeida Beltrão, Giulia Carvalhal, Fabyo Napoleão de Lima Beltrão, Igor Motta de Aquino, Thaíse da Silva Brito, Barbara Costa Paulino, Elisa Aires, Diana Viegas, Fabio Hecht, Bruno Halpern, Liana Clebia De Morais Pordeus, Maria da Conceição Rodrigues Gonçalves, and Helton Estrela Ramos
Engineering Co., Shenzhen, China). Measurements were performed according to the manufacturer’s protocol. The number of neutrophils and lymphocytes, the neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and hemoglobin levels of all patients were recorded. Image
Effect of plasma glucose at admission on COVID-19 mortality: experience from a tertiary hospital
Bharat Kumar, Madhukar Mittal, Maya Gopalakrishnan, Mahendra K Garg, and Sanjeev Misra
normally distributed, hence, the analysis was performed by Mann–Whitney U -test. All categorical data were compared by the chi-square test. Cox proportional hazard ratio was used to assess the mortality risk among four categories of plasma glucose value
Persistent inflammation and endothelial dysfunction in patients with treated acromegaly
T L C Wolters, C D C C van der Heijden, N van Leeuwen, B T P Hijmans-Kersten, M G Netea, J W A Smit, D H J Thijssen, A R M M Hermus, N P Riksen, and R T Netea-Maier
controls. Relative leukocyte counts did not differ between patients and controls. The inflammatory marker neutrophil-to-lymphocyte (NtL) ratio did not differ between groups, whereas its analogue, the platelet-to-lymphocyte (PtL) ratio was higher in patients
Machine learning identifies baseline clinical features that predict early hypothyroidism in patients with Graves’ disease after radioiodine therapy
Lian Duan, Han-Yu Zhang, Min Lv, Han Zhang, Yao Chen, Ting Wang, Yan Li, Yan Wu, Junfeng Li, and Kefeng Li
the host immune system and a useful prognostic marker in many inflammatory diseases. A recent study reported that a high neutrophil-to-lymphocyte (NLR) ratio is associated with the relapse in Graves’ disease after antithyroid drug therapy ( 28
