Diagnostic performance of the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) for periprosthetic joint infection after total hip and knee arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Alireza Sadeghpour Teymourlou, Amin Moradi, Hossein Akbari Aghdam, Hooman Yahyazadeh, Mohamm Ali Jafari Zare, Asghar Elmi, Mohammad Reza Aslani · 2026
Read Diagnostic performance of the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) for periprosthetic joint infection after total hip and knee arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Alireza Sadeghpour Teymourlou, Amin Moradi, Hossein Akbari Aghdam, Hooman Yahyazadeh, Mohamm Ali Jafari Zare, Asghar Elmi, Mohammad Reza Aslani (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13390294.txt.
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Alireza Sadeghpour Teymourlou and colleagues pool, in 2026, evidence on a simple blood ratio as a test for infection around artificial hip and knee joints. Periprosthetic joint infection is a serious failure mode after joint replacement, and a cheap blood clue would aid diagnosis.
Searching PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science, the team gathered studies of the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio and combined their accuracy results. Because studies varied widely, subgroup analyses explored where the ratio performs better or worse. Orthopaedic surgeons gain an updated verdict on this ratio, which comes from a routine blood count. They learn whether it deserves a place beside standard infection markers. They also learn how much weight a single cut-off value can bear.
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| CREATOR | Alireza Sadeghpour Teymourlou, Amin Moradi, Hossein Akbari Aghdam, Hooman Yahyazadeh, Mohamm Ali Jafari Zare, Asghar Elmi, Mohammad Reza Aslani |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38583 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC0 |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |