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Núñez J, Sanchis J, Bodí V, Núñez E, Mainar L, Heatta AM, Husser O, Miñana G, Merlos P, Darmofal H, Pellicer M, Llàcer A

Relationship between low lymphocyte count and major cardiac events in patients with acute chest pain, a non-diagnostic electrocardiogram and normal troponin levels.

Atherosclerosis. 2009 Sep;206(1):251-7, PMID: 19230894

Risk stratification of patients with acute chest pain, non-diagnostic electrocardiogram and normal troponin (ACPneg) remains a challenge, partly because no standardized set of biomarkers with prognostic ability has been identified in this population. Lymphopenia has been associated with atherosclerosis progression and adverse outcomes in cardiovascular diseases; although its prognostic value in ACPneg is unknown. We sought to determine the relationship between the lymphocyte count obtained in the Emergency Department (ED) and the risk of the long-term all-cause mortality or myocardial infarction (MI) in patients with ACPneg.

PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE