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Vita Pramatasari Harti, Andhika Trisna Putra, Dwi Hidayah
Department of Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, Sebelas Maret University/ Dr. Moewardi
General Hospital Surakarta, Indonesia
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Keywords: neonatal sepsis,
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Neonatal sepsis is a major cause of neonatal
morbidity and mortality, especially in developing
countries. Blood culture as the gold standard is
expensive and time consuming, Therefore, various
iomarkers are used for early detection of
neonatal sepsis. The aim of this study was to
evaluate the diagnostic efficiency of red cell
distribution width (RDW) and neutrophil-
lymphocyte ratio (NLR) as predictors of neonatal
sepsis.
This is a retrospective observational study.
Neonates with sepsis treated at the Neonatology
Unit of Moewardi Hospital of Surakarta during
October 2020 -March 2021. They were selected by
consecutive sampling. Analysis was performed by
IBM SPSS Statistics 19 with P value <0.05 was
consideredas significant.
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This study included 149 neonates with neonatal
sepsis who fulfilled the criteria. There were 48
neonates (32.2%) with positive blood culture and
101 neonates (67.7%) with negative blood culture.
Mean ROW values was 135 in the positive culture
group and 11.4 in the negative culture group. Mean
NLR value was 3.07 in the positive culture group and
2.34 inthe negative culture group. The RDW and NLR
values between the two groups were not different
significantly, ROW with cut off >4.539% has a
sensitivity value of 81% anda specificity of 80%, AUC
0.424, NLR with cut off>1.595 had a sensitivity value
of 64% and a specificity of 57%, AUC 0.561. The
combination of ROW and NLR hed a significant
correlation with positive blood culture results with P
value <0.05 (r=0.27;p=0.041).
In this studh, ROW and NLR cannot be used as
predictors of neonatal sepsis, The combination of these
two parameters showed a significant correlation with
positive bloodculture results.
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