Ahmet Goktug Ertem, Cagri Yayla, Burak Acar, Ozgur Kirbas, Sefa Unal, Melahat Uzel Sener, Mehmet Kadri Akboga, Tolga Han Efe, Serkan Sivri, Fatih Sen, Serkan Gokaslan, Serkan Topaloglu
INTRODUCTION: The relationship between inflammation and mortality after acute pulmonary embolism (APE) has previously been investigated with different variables (platelet/lymphocyte ratio, etc). OBJECTIVES: We investigated the predictive value of lymphocyte to monocyte ratio (LMR) for mortality in first 30 days after APE. METHODS: The study population included 264 APE patients of which 230 patients were survivors, 34 patients were non-survivors...
February 2018: Clinical Respiratory Journal