2Associate Professor, Bursa City Hospital,Department of Ophthalmology, Bursa, Turkey
3Associate Professor, Keçiören Dünyagöz Hospital, Ankara, Turkey DOI : 10.37845/ret.vit.2021.30.10 Purpose: Intraocular infl ammation in RP eyes, which might be related to its pathophysiology.To evaluate the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in patients with retinitis pigmentosa and to compare with this the control group.
Materials and Methods: This retrospective study included 31 patients with retinitis pigmentosa and 25 healthy subjects. Complete ophthalmological examination and complete blood count measurement results of all subjects were evaluated. The NLR was calculated in all of the individuals and compared between the retinitis pigmentosa patients and the healthy controls.
Results: The mean NLR±SD was 2.46±1.01 in the retinitis pigmentosa patients group. The mean NLR±SD was 1.87±0.58 in the control group. There was a signifi cant difference in NLR between retinitis pigmentosa and control groups (p=0.003).
Conclusion: NLR could be considered a quicker and a cheaper marker detected only routine CBC analysis an inflammatory marker for retinitis pigmentosa patients. Further studies are needed in order to come up to more defi nite results.
Keywords : Retinitis pigmentosa, Infl ammation, neutrophil, Lymphocyte, neutrophil, Lymphocyte ratio