Impact of prognostic nutritional index on postoperative outcome of acute empyema.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prognostic nutritional index (PNI) is a useful prognostic index for postoperative outcomes in many fields. We investigated the usefulness of the PNI as a prognostic biomarker of 1-year postoperative survival for acute empyema.

Methods

The subjects of this retrospective study were patients who underwent surgery for acute empyema at NHO Iwakuni Clinical Center between November 2009 and March 2022, and they were divided into two groups: those who survived after surgery (survival group) and those who died from all-cause within 1 year after surgery (death within 1-year group). The preoperative PNI calculated within 3 days before surgery and the postoperative PNI calculated 7 days after surgery were compared between the two groups. An appropriate cutoff value of the

SUBMITTER: Shiotani T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12688604 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature