Does ultrasonography combined with NLR and PLR effectively diagnose endothelial dysfunction in patients with pulmonary thromboembolism?
Ultrasonography combined with NLR and PLR provides an effective and inexpensive non-invasive method for diagnosing endothelial dysfunction in patients with pulmonary thromboembolism.
The results of our study suggest that using non-invasive method such as ultrasonography combined with NLR and PLR in endothelial dysfunction diagnosis in PTE patients are both effective and inexpensive. We believe in PTE patients endothelial dysfunction may play a role in the development of probable cardiovascular events in future.
Kurtipek et al. (Mon,) studied this question.