1. Increased monocyte count and red cell distribution width as prognostic biomarkers in patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
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Theodoros Karampitsakos, Sebastiano Torrisi, Katerina Antoniou, Effrosyni Manali, Ioanna Korbila, Ourania Papaioannou, Fotios Sampsonas, Matthaios Katsaras, Eirini Vasarmidi, Despoina Papakosta, Kalliopi Domvri, Eva Fouka, Ioannis Organtzis, Zoe Daniil, Ilias Dimeas, Paraskevi Kirgou, Konstantinos I. Gourgoulianis, Ilias C. Papanikolaou, Katerina Markopoulou, Georgia Kounti, Eirini Tsapakidou, Efthymia Papadopoulou, Konstantinos Tatsis, Athena Gogali, Konstantinos Kostikas, Vasilios Tzilas, Serafeim Chrysikos, Spyridon Papiris, Demosthenes Bouros, Michael Kreuter, and Argyrios Tzouvelekis
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Monocyte count ,RDW ,Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis ,Biomarkers ,Mortality ,Diseases of the respiratory system ,RC705-779 - Abstract
Abstract Background Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) represents a chronic lung disease with unpredictable course. Methods We aimed to investigate prognostic performance of complete blood count parameters in IPF. Treatment-naïve patients with IPF were retrospectively enrolled from two independent cohorts (derivation and validation) and split into subgroups (high and low) based on median baseline monocyte count and red cell distribution width (RDW). Results Overall, 489 patients (derivation cohort: 300, validation cohort: 189) were analyzed. In the derivation cohort, patients with monocyte count ≥ 0.60 K/μL had significantly lower median FVC%pred [75.0, (95% CI 71.3–76.7) vs. 80.9, (95% CI 77.5–83.1), (P = 0.01)] and DLCO%pred [47.5, (95% CI 44.3–52.3) vs. 53.0, (95% CI 48.0–56.7), (P = 0.02)] than patients with monocyte count
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- 2021
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