Correlation between neutrophil lymphocyte count ratio and outcomes of severe traumatic head injury

Authors

  • Tamajyoti Ghosh Department of Neurosurgery, Armed Forces, Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6605-2987
  • Subir Dey Department of Neurosurgery, Armed Forces, Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-3933.ijam20214873

Keywords:

Head Injury, Neutrophil Lymphocyte count ratio, Glasgow outcome score, Glasgow coma scale

Abstract

Background: Raised peripheral neutrophil lymphocyte ratio is associated with poorer outcomes in conditions such as severe brain injury, ICH, cardiovascular conditions, cancer.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of 96 severe Traumatic Brain injury data treated at our institute over a period of 1 year. The patients were followed up for a period of at least 1 month. The primary outcome of the study was 1 month GOS and the various variables which may be associated with the poor GOS at 1 month follow up. Model based analysis was done for NLCR <24 hrs at 48 hrs and GCS at the time of presentation and discriminative ability of the models were studied by the Area under the curve.

Results: Univariate analysis were done of 96 patients of severe traumatic brain injury for various variables such as age, sex, mode of head injury, type of head injury, presenting GCS and NLCR at 24 hrs and 48 hrs to that of GOS at 1 month follow up. Initial GCS <7 (p=0.0138) with AUC=0.6689 and peak NLCR (<24 hr) of > 9.6 (AUC=0.931) with a p value of <0.001 with sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 79.27% and peak NLCR (48 hrs) of >12.4 (AUC= 0.973) with a p value of <0.001 with sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 89.02% were associated with unfavourable outcome.

Conclusions: High NLCR and initial poor GCS are independent unfavourable prognostic factors in 1 month GOS following severe traumatic head injury.

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2021-12-23

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