Clinical Implications of the Controlling Nutritional Status Score on Short-term Outcomes in Patients with Pleural Infection.

ABSTRACT: Objective Pleural infection is a significant disease that continues to pose severe problems for respiratory physicians. However, prognostic factors of pleural infection remain poorly understood. The controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score represents the immune-nutrition status of patients with chronic infectious diseases. This study investigated its prognostic value in patients with pleural infections. Methods We retrospectively analyzed a collected database of 2,363 patients who underwent thoracentesis and pleural fluid analyses between January 2010 and December 2019. Of these, only 335 patients with complicated parapneumonic effusion and empyema defined as pleural infection were included. They were divided into two groups based on the dichotomized CONUT score (i.e. <6 for low scores

SUBMITTER: Oh J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10293009 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature