Neutrophil-To-Lymphocyte Ratio: An Emerging Marker Predicting Prognosis in Elderly Adults with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1796-1801

  Cataudella, Emanuela ^a   Giraffa, Chiara M ^a   Di Marca, Salvatore ^a   Pulvirenti, Alfredo ^a   Alaimo, Salvatore ^a   Pisano, Marcella ^a   Terranova, Valentina ^a   Corriere, Thea ^a   Ronsisvalle, Maria L ^a   Di Quattro, Rosario ^a   Stancanelli, Benedetta ^a   Giordano, Mauro ^b   Vancheri, Carlo ^a   Malatino, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

CAP; community acquired pneumonia; elderly adults; NLR; prognostic score

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CELL MARKER; UREA;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOXEMIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHIL LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA SEVERITY INDEX; PRESSURE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPUTUM; SURVIVAL; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; BLOOD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CYTOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; ITALY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHIL; PNEUMONIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ITALY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEUTROPHILS; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 85018299482     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14894     Document Type: Article

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