Mean Platelet Volume and Related Parameters May not Contribute to the Diagnosis in Patients with Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm

First of all, the fact that the study was designed retrospectively prevented the elimination of pre-analytical and analytical errors, which may have negatively affected the laboratory tests. In this study, not knowing the method of MPV measurement raises important concerns about the reliability of the data. [...]the fact that it is not known which devices are measured makes the cutoff values defined by the researchers unusable. [...]MPV and related parameters may not contribute to the diagnosis in patients with ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm. * E-mail: cengizbeyan@hotmail.com Tekin YK, Tekin G. Mean platelet volume-to-platelet count ratio, mean platelet volume-to-lymphocyte ratio, and red blood cell distribution width-platelet count ratio as markers of inflammation in patients with ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm.