CSF leukocyte, polykaryocyte, protein and glucose: Their cut-offs of judging whether post-neurosurgical bacterial meningitis has been cured
第一作者:Yin Lishan, Lishan
通讯作者:Liu Baiyun, Baiyun
2018-11-01
发表杂志:Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
发表类型: Article
影响因子(IF): 1.876
PMID: 30273842 Pubmed原文链接 全文下载
We conducted a retrospective analysis of 46 patients who attended General Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Force in Beijing, China, from January 1, 2014 to April 30, 2016. The CSF leukocyte, polykaryocyte, protein and glucose had been tested when their antibiotic treatments were empirically stopped. Between the non-relapse and relapse groups, Wilcoxon Rank Sum test was used to compare the differences of CSF leukocyte and polykaryocyte, and t-test was applied to contrast the distinctions of CSF protein and glucose, then, the thresholds of significant items were estimated by ROC curve.
Both CSF leukocyte and polykaryocyte can satisfactorily indicate whether the post-neurosurgical bacterial meningitis has completely been cured, 0-44/mm3 is recommended as the reference range of CSF leukocyte, and the CSF polykaryocyte' s is 0-3/mm3.
The CSF leukocyte counts in non-relapse group are 23.72 ± 14.12/mm3, which are statistically less than the relapse group's (47.00 ± 1.00/mm3, P = 0.014), so does the CSF polykaryocyte counts (1.74 ± 4.84/mm3 &4.67 ± 1.15/mm3, P = 0.012). Between the two groups, the AUCs of leucocyte and polykaryocyte are 0.926 (95% CI = 0.845-1.0, P = 0.014) and 0.884 (95%CI = 0.786-0.982, P = 0.028), respectively. Their critical values are 44/mm3 (sensitivity = 1, specificity = 0.907) and 3/mm3 (sensitivity = 1, specificity = 0.837). Conversely, CSF protein and glucose have no statistic differences between the two groups.