Prognostic nutritional index in risk of mortality following fulminant myocarditis.

ABSTRACT: Fulminant myocarditis (FM) is an acute fatal inflammation disease, but its chronic phase is unclear. A Japanese nationwide registry evaluated the long-term mortality in FM patients using a prognostic nutritional index (PNI). The retrospective cohort study included patients with clinically suspected or histologically proven FM available for PNI. PNI was assessed on admission and at discharge. We divided patients into two groups based on PNI at discharge (PNI ≤ 40 or PNI > 40) and analyzed the change in PNI and mortality between the groups. Of 323 patients (the median [first-third quartiles] age of this cohort was 50 [37-64] years, and 143 [44%] were female), PNI ≤ 40 at discharge was in 99 (31%) patients. The median PNI in all patients increased from 41 (36- 46) on admission to 43 (39-48) a

SUBMITTER: Doi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12638857 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature