Proportion of Neutrophils in White Blood Cells as a Useful Marker for Predicting Bacteremic Acute Cholangitis.

ABSTRACT: Objective A positive hemoculture in acute cholangitis is serious, but a blood culture result cannot be obtained at the initial diagnosis and so cannot be used for the severity assessment and decision-making concerning urgent/early biliary drainage. Accordingly, a predictor for bacteremia at the initial diagnosis of acute cholangitis would be particularly useful. We investigated the association between neutrophil proportions in white blood cell counts (%Neutro) and bacteremic acute cholangitis. Methods Of 166 patients with acute cholangitis who were diagnosed with the Tokyo Guidelines 2018/2013 from April 2015 to March 2017, a total of 94 underwent blood culture assessments and were divided into those with a positive hemoculture (n=48) and a negative hemoculture (n=46) and then compared. A

SUBMITTER: Yamaguchi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10602826 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature