Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and mesenteric ischemia: can it predict the etiology of mesenteric ischemic at computed tomography?
M A Rivera NúñezL Rodríguez GijónYashdeep Singh PathaniaM Martí de GraciaG Buitrago WeilandA Díez TascónPublished in: Emergency radiology (2019)
The NLR is a useful parameter of AMI of arterial origin due to occlusion of the SMA; it can help the clinician to raise suspicion of this diagnosis and the interpreting radiologist in the acquisition protocol for the CT study and would alert for an early surgical treatment.