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Background: Preeclampsia refers to the new onset of hypertension and proteinuria or hypertension and end-organ dysfunction with or without proteinuria after 20 weeks of gestation in a previously normotensive woman
Objective: This study was aimed to evaluate the relationship between Neutrophil/Lymphocyte ratio [NLR] in patients with pre-eclampsia [PE] and severity of preeclampsia. Subjects and methods: This prospective study comprised a total of 150 pregnant females divided in 3 groups "50 healthy pregnant females [Group 1], 50 females with mild pre-eclampsia [Group 2] and 50 with severe pre-eclampsia [Group 3]". All the study participants were statistically compared in respect to Neutrophil/Lymphocyte Ratio [NLR] and the baseline data including age and BMI
Results: Maternal NLR was determined to be significantly high in the pre-eclamptic patients [Groups 2 and 3] compared to those with healthy pregnancies [Group 1] [p = 0.0003]. NLR was significantly higher in the severe pre-eclampsia group than in the mild pre-eclampsia group [p = 0.042]
Conclusion: It could be concluded that while NLR was determined as significantly high in patients with pre- eclampsia, to be able to use this in the classification of the severity of pre-eclampsia, there is a need for further studies on a more extensive population
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This study searched for reports of MR images containing the word "lipoma". Medical records were reviewed to identify patients with palpable masses corresponding to fat. The purpose of this study was to assess the MR imaging appearance of palpable fatty masses and to purpose terminology for palpable subcutaneous fatty masses that are non-capsulated on MR imaging