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                                                                                    <journal-title>Ege Tıp Dergisi</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">1016-9113</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2147-6500</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Ege Üniversitesi</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.19161/etd.504466</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>Health Care Administration</subject>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>Sağlık Kurumları Yönetimi</subject>
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                                    <trans-title>Can neutrophil / lymphocyte ratio be used as a predictor of the hepatic fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B patients</trans-title>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                <article-title>Nötrofil / lenfosit oranı kronik hepatit B hastalarında karaciğer fibrozisini saptamada kullanılabilir mi?</article-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8830-0371</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Özer Sarı</surname>
                                    <given-names>Sevil</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>Atatürk Eğitim Araştırma Hastanesi, Gastroenteroloji Kliniği, Ankara</aff>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2197-7473</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Köseoğlu</surname>
                                    <given-names>Hüseyin</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Gastroenteroloji Bilim Dalı, Ankara</aff>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Akar</surname>
                                    <given-names>Mustafa</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>Atatürk Eğitim Araştırma Hastanesi, Gastroenteroloji Kliniği, Ankara</aff>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5735-4200</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Solakoğlu</surname>
                                    <given-names>Tevfik</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>Atatürk Eğitim Araştırma Hastanesi, Gastroenteroloji Kliniği, Ankara</aff>
                                                            </contrib>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1364-5962</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Ersoy</surname>
                                    <given-names>Osman</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Gastroenteroloji Bilim Dalı, Ankara</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20190628">
                    <day>06</day>
                    <month>28</month>
                    <year>2019</year>
                </pub-date>
                                        <volume>58</volume>
                                        <issue>2</issue>
                                        <fpage>136</fpage>
                                        <lpage>139</lpage>
                        
                        <history>
                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20180215">
                        <day>02</day>
                        <month>15</month>
                        <year>2018</year>
                    </date>
                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20180523">
                        <day>05</day>
                        <month>23</month>
                        <year>2018</year>
                    </date>
                            </history>
                                        <permissions>
                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 1962, Ege Tıp Dergisi</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>1962</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Ege Tıp Dergisi</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <trans-abstract xml:lang="en">
                            <p>Aim: Assessing fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients is important in preventing cirrhosis and hepatocellularcancer development. Liver biopsy is the golden standard in evaluating fibrosis. Because liver biopsy is invasive andhas complications, non-invasive tests to demonstrate liver histopathology have become more important. There aresome studies that demonstrate the relationship between neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and fibrosis in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and CHB patients. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the relationshipbetween NLR and hepatic fibrosis in CHB patients.Materials and Methods: Sixty-seven patients who were under follow-up by our hepatology outpatient clinic and hadliver biopsies were reviewed retrospectively. Demographics, laboratory parameters and values measured with liverbiopsy were recorded for each patient.Results: The mean age of the study population was 48.6±11.7 years. Seventeen women (25.4%) and 50 men(69.6%) were included in the study. Fibrosis degree was 0 in 8 patients, 1 in 15, 2 in 8, 3 in 18, 4 in 7, 5 in 9, and 6 in2. No significant relationship was found between fibrosis degree which was detected by liver biopsy and NLR in CHBpatients (p=0.54).Conclusion: NLR ratio was not considered to be an effective parameter to demonstrate fibrosis in CHB patients.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                                                                                                    <abstract><p>Amaç: Kronik hepatit B (KHB) hastalarında fibrozis değerlendirmesi siroz ve hepatosellüler kanser gelişiminiönlemek açısından önemlidir. Karaciğer biyopsisi fibrozisi değerlendirmek için altın standarttır. Karaciğer biyopsisinininvaziv olması ve komplikasyonlarının olması nedeniyle karaciğer histopatolojisini gösterecek noninvaziv testler önemkazanmıştır. Nötrofil/lenfosit oranının (NLO) nonalkolik steatohepatitli ve KHB&#039;li hastalarda fibrozis ile ilişkisinigösteren bazı çalışmalar bulunmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı KHB’li hastalarda NLO ile karaciğer fibrozisi arasındakiilişkiyi değerlendirmektir.Gereç ve Yöntem: Hepatoloji polikliniğimizce takip edilen ve karaciğer biyopsisi olan 67 KHB’li hasta retrospektifolarak değerlendirildi. Tüm hastaların demografik verileri, laboratuvar parametreleri ve karaciğer biyopsisindesaptanan değerler kaydedildi.Bulgular: Çalışmaya dahil edilen hastaların yaş ortalaması 48,6±11,7 yıl idi. 17 hasta kadın (%25,4), 50 hasta erkekti(%69,6). Fibrozis dereceleri 8 hastada 0, 15 hastada 1, 8 hastada 2, 18 hastada 3, 7 hastada 4, 9 hastada 5, 2hastada 6 olarak değerlendirildi. KHB hastalarında karaciğer biyopsisinde saptanan fibrozis ile NLO arasındakiilişkiye bakıldığında iki parametre arasında anlamlı bir ilişki saptanmadı (p=0,54).Sonuç: NLO oranı KHB&#039;li hastalarda fibrozisi göstermede etkin bir parametre olarak görülmemiştir.</p></abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Kronik hepatit B</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  nötrofil/lenfosit oranı</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  fibrozis.</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Chronic Hepatitis B</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Neutrophil/Lymphocyte ratio</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Fibrosis.</kwd>
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