Author/Authors :
Canpolat, Uğur Türkiye Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital - Cardiology Clinic, Turkey , Turak, Osman Türkiye Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital - Cardiology Clinic, Turkey , Özcan, Fırat Türkiye Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital - Cardiology Clinic, Turkey , Özeke, Özcan Türkiye Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital - Cardiology Clinic, Turkey , Aras, Dursun Türkiye Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital - Cardiology Clinic, Turkey
Abstract :
In a recent issue of your journal, we were grateful to read an interesting article by Icli et al. assessing the mean platelet volume (MPV), which is an indicator of platelet activation in patients with infective endocarditis (IE), and changes in MPV values after antibiotic treatment. They found that the MPV was significantly higher among patients with IE when compared with the control group and that the MPV values of patients with IE decreased significantly with treatment (from 9.86 ± 1.1 to 7.86 ± 1.0 fl, p 0.01). We thank these authors for their complementary contributions to the area of platelet activation in IE patients.
