Abstract
Background: An uncontrolled host reaction to an infection can result in organ failure and sepsis, a potentially fatal illness. Severe organ dysfunction brought on by infection is a clinical illness known as sepsis. When it comes to severe sepsis, mortality rates can range from 25% to 30%, whereas septic shock can have mortality rates of 40% to 70%.
Aim and objectives: To evaluate the usefulness of NLR as a mortality predictive factor in septic patients receiving medical intensive care unit(MICU) treatment.
Patients and methods: In this prospective trial, 150 consecutive adult patients with sepsis-63 females with a mean age of 49.5 years and 87 males with a mean age of 52.5 years divided into two groups: survivors(n=122) and non-survivors(n=28) at MICU, Department.
Results: With a cutoff value of >10.6, NLR exhibited a considerable amount of predictive power for mortality among septic patients, exhibiting 88.3% sensitivity and 94.6% specificity.
Conclusion: In cases of sepsis, NLR may be a helpful predictive and diagnostic sign. When comparing the NLR distributions of the two groups under study, the survivors group and the non-survivors the non-survivors group had higher NLR values and were substantially more frequent than the survivors group.
Article Type
Original Article
Keywords
Neutrophil; lymphocyte; mortality; Intensive Care; septic patients
Subject Area
Internal Medicine
How to Cite This Article
Abolhassan, Ahmed Mohamed; Hashish, Mahmoud Abdellatif; metwaly, Mostafa Mohamed elsaied; and Atwan, Ahmed Tharwat Mohamed
(2024)
"Impact of Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio as a predictive marker for mortality in Medical Intensive Care septic patients,"
Al-Azhar International Medical Journal: Vol. 5:
Iss.
12, Article 13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58675/2682-339X.2792
