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Published on: April 7, 2021
Mean platelet volume in neonatal respiratory distress syndrome
Fuat Emre Canpolat1, Murat Yurdakök, Didem Armangil
1Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Hacettepe, Ankara, Turkey. femrecan@gmail.com
Abstract:
The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in mean platelet volume (MPV) between neonates with and without neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). Eighty-three premature infants who were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit were included in the study. Forty-four of these infants were diagnosed as having RDS and the other 39 infants were non-RDS patients. Infants born to mothers with pre-eclampsia, or a drug history that had negative effects on platelet count, perinatal hypoxia, sepsis and necrotizing enterocolitis were excluded. Blood collection was done on the first and third days of life. There were no demographic, gestational or platelet count differences between groups, but MPV was higher in RDS patients and this difference was statistically significant (P= 0.011). High platelet volumes in RDS patients is probably related to young platelet production and may be a result of increased platelet consumption in pulmonary damage due to RDS.
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