The posterior extensive approach is safe and effective to remove the large abdominally involved dumbbell tumors, and also facilitates simultaneously reconstruction of the vertebral body, as compared with the combined posterior and anterior approach.
Uric acid (UA) plays an important role in the oxidant stress that causes inflammation. We assessed the association between UA and neutrophil ratio, white blood cell (WBC) count and blood lipid in 524 patients admitted with stroke. Stroke patients with a neutrophil ratio >70% displayed significantly lower UA levels than those with a neutrophil ratio ≤70% (p < 0.05). According to UA quartiles, neutrophil ratio, WBC count, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in the UA grade 1 group (≤214.10 μmol/L) were significantly increased over those in other UA grade groups. The results of stepwise regression analysis found that UA levels were inversely associated with neutrophil ratios (B ± SE = -1.11 ± 0.35), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (B ± SE = -46.18 ± 14.17), total cholesterol (B ± SE = 9.82 ± 3.66), blood urea nitrogen (B ± SE = 6.30 ± 1.73), and creatinine (B ± SE = 0.63 ± 0.10). There is a correlationship between lower serum uric acid with neutrophil ratios in inflammation associated with stroke and the reasons need to be investigated further.
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