TY - JOUR JF - Ilam-University-of-Medical-Sciences JO - VL - 7 IS - 3 PY - 2020 Y1 - 2020/6/01 TI - Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as a novel and valuable marker for assessing disease severity in Ulcerative colitis, Multiple sclerosis, and Kawasaki disease: A review TT - N2 - Ulcerative colitis (UC), multiple sclerosis (MS), and Kawasaki disease (KD) are three autoimmune diseases that involve the colon mucosa, myelin of the central nervous system neurons, and vascular epithelium. All these diseases need invasive, expensive, and complex modalities or criteria in order to monitor the disease severity. Recently, the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) has been proposed as a valuable, cheap, and easy marker of systemic inflammation. As all the above-mentioned diseases involve neutrophils and lymphocytes as the two major cell lines, it may be applicable to assess their severity according to the NLR. Here, we review the available literature with this regard. SP - 62 EP - 70 AU - Ghodsi, Alireza AU - Mirimoghaddam, Mohammad Mobin AU - Sarabi, Mehrdad AU - Dehghan Tarazjani, Amirreza AU - Omranzadeh, Alireza AU - Mahdavi Rashed, Masoud AU - Rahimi, Hamid Reza AD - Department of Modern Sciences and Technologies, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran KW - Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio KW - Ulcerative colitis KW - Multiple sclerosis KW - Kawasaki disease UR - http://jbrms.medilam.ac.ir/article-1-527-en.html ER -