Eosinophilic and non-eosinophilic COPD patients with chronic respiratory failure: neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as an exacerbation marker

AIM: Increased dyspnea, sputum volume, and purulence are subjective symptoms in COPD patients. To diagnose COPD exacerbations with chronic respiratory failure (CRF) and to assess the requirement for antibiotic treatment, physicians require more objective criteria. We aimed to investigate whether neu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis
Hauptverfasser: Acartürk Tunçay, Eylem, Karakurt, Zuhal, Aksoy, Emine, Saltürk, Cuneyt, Gungor, Sinem, Ciftaslan, Nezihe, Irmak, İlim, Yavuz, Dilek, Ocakli, Birsen, Adıgüzel, Nalan
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Dove Medical Press 2017
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5703161/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29200843
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S147261
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