“A study of correlation between Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio and Platelet to lymphocyte ratio in Patients of chronic kidney disease At kle’s dr. Prabhakar kore hospital And mrc, belagavi.”

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Inflammation is recognized as one of the central pathophysiological factors in chronic kidney disease. Nowadays we have widely recognized monitoring and diagnostic markers such as high sensitive C reactive Protein (hs-CRP), serum albumin, erythrocytes sedimentation rate (ESR), ferritin and many others. However, in the present social economic status and in developing countries like India, it is important that we search for cost-effective biological markers after extrapolating their utility from other areas. Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) have begun to be used in kidney patients particularly as a marker of end-organ damage and inflammation.NLR and PLR have demonstrated to be a simple and affordable laboratory parameter that give important information on inflammation in CKD patients. Objective of our study was to know correlation between NLR and PLR in patients of chronic kidney disease.