Seeking New Parameters In Differentiating Child Tuberculosis From Community Acquired Pneumonia- Is It Possible?”

Abstract

Abstract Background: The neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and monocyte-lymphocyte ratio(MLR) are useful biomarkers of inflammation used in many diseases to evaluate bacteremia, disease activity, recurrence rate, surveillance and prognosis. Objective: Aim of this study was to evaluate NLR and MLR in the differential diagnosis of children with pulmonary tuberculosis disease from CAP. Materials and Methods: I reviewed hospital-records of 50 children with pulmonary tuberculosis disease in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Ward between June 2016 and December 2018, and compared; NLR and MLR with 50 CAP and 50 healthy children. Also; erythrocyte sedimentation rate(ESR) and C-reactive protein(CRP) were compared between the tuberculosis and CAP group. Results: When 3 groups were compared there was significant difference among NLR and MLR values between 3 groups. In pairwise-comparisons, there was significant difference among NLR and MLR values between tuberculosis versus healthy controls, and CAP versus healthy controls. However, there was no significant difference among NLR, MLR values between tuberculosis versus CAP groups. Conclusion: This study is unique that evluates NLR and MLR in tuberculosis differentiation. Although NLR and MLR values are useful biomarkers of inflammation in both pulmonary tuberculosis and CAP seperately, they’re not as useful as expected in differentiating tuberculosis from CAP in children.

Keywords

• tuberculosis
• community acquired pneumonia
• child
• neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio
• monocyte to lymphocyte ratio
• tüberküloz
• toplum kaynaklı pnömoni
• çocuk
• notrofil lenfosit oranı
• monosit lenfosit oranı