Busra Yilmaz, Efsun Somay, Erkan Topkan, Berrin Pehlivan, Ali Ayberk Besen, Huseyin Mertsoylu, Ugur Selek
Journal of stomatology, oral and maxillofacial surgery 2024 DecWe aimed to investigate whether the Pan-Immune-Inflammation-Value/Hemoglobin (PIV/Hb) index could predict the risk of osteoradionecrosis (ORN) in patients receiving concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) for locally advanced nasopharyngeal cancer (LA-NPC). This retrospective analysis included LA-NPC patients who underwent CCRT and pre-CCRT oral exams at our institution's Departments of Radiation Oncology and Dentistry between January 2010 and December 2022. The relationship between ORN rates and PIV-Hb levels was explored using receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. The primary objective was to establish a correlation between pre-CCRT PIV-Hb levels and ORN rates, while the secondary objective was to identify other risk factors for ORN. Of 249 eligible patients, 21 (8.4 %) were diagnosed with ORN. The optimal pre-CCRT PIV/Hb cutoff was 73.8, which divided patients into two subgroups with distinctive ORN risk estimates: Group 1: PIV/Hb < 73.8 (N = 206), and Group 2: PIV/Hb ≥ 73.8 (N = 43). The results of the comparative analysis indicated that the cohort with PIV/Hb ≥ 73.8 exhibited substantially higher rates of ORN than the PIV/Hb < 73.8 cohort (44.2 % vs. 1.0 %; P < 0.001). The multivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that the pretreatment PIV/Hb ≥ 73.8 was independently associated with higher ORN rates (P < 0.001). The results of our current investigation indicate that higher levels of pretreatment PIV/Hb were associated with a significant independent increase in ORN rates in LA-NPC patients who received CCRT. Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
Busra Yilmaz, Efsun Somay, Erkan Topkan, Berrin Pehlivan, Ali Ayberk Besen, Huseyin Mertsoylu, Ugur Selek. Predictive potential of pan-immune-inflammation value / hemoglobin index as biomarker for osteoradionecrosis risk in locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinomas. Journal of stomatology, oral and maxillofacial surgery. 2024 Dec;125(6):101786
PMID: 38286220
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