Impact of cancer history on clinical outcome in patients undergoing transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral repair

ConclusionsIn MitraClip patients, a history of cancer was associated with higher inflammatory parameters and worse prognosis compared to non-cancer patients.Graphical AbstractCentral Illustration. Clinical outcomes and baseline PLR and NLR values accord-ing to one-year mortality. (Left) Patients who died within the follow-up period had a significantly higher baseline PLR (214.2 [124.2 –296.7] vs 156.3 [110.2–212.1];P = 0.007) and NLR (6.4 [4.2 –12.5] vs 4.0 [2.9–6.2];P< 0.001) than patients who survived. PLR, platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio; NLR, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (Right) A Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed that cancer patients had a significantly worse prognosis than non-cancer patients (estimated one-year mortality, 20.2 vs 9.2%; log-rankP = 0.009).
Source: Clinical Research in Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Source Type: research