TY - JOUR AU - Green, Jeremy AU - Bin Mahmood, Syed Usman AU - Mori, Makoto AU - Yousef, Sameh AU - Mangi, Abeel A. AU - Geirsson, Arnar PY - 2019 DA - 2019/09/11 TI - Stability across time of the neutrophil-lymphocyte and lymphocyte-neutrophil ratios and associations with outcomes in cardiac surgery patients JO - Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery SP - 164 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - Elevated white blood cell counts and leukocyte ratios are recognized markers of systemic inflammation associated with poor surgical outcomes. We analyzed the temporal stability and prognostic value of the preoperative Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and Lymphocyte-to-Neutrophil ratio (LNR) in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafts and/or valve surgery. SN - 1749-8090 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13019-019-0988-6 DO - 10.1186/s13019-019-0988-6 ID - Green2019 ER -