Utility of the Systemic Inflammation Response Index as a Predictor of Pneumonia After Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage.

OBJECTIVE

We sought to determine whether the initial Systemic Inflammatory Response Index (SIRI) was associated with pneumonia after spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (SICH) in hospitalized patients.

PATIENTS AND

METHODS

Patients with SICH admitted to Taizhou People's Hospital between January 2019 and December 2021 were retrospectively analyzed. Baseline variables were compared between stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP) and non-SAP groups. Multivariable logistic regression analyses were utilized to calculate the relationship between SIRI and SAP risk.

RESULTS

Of 495 patients included in this research, 192 (38.79%) developed SAP ultimately. The SIRI values exhibited the highest area under the curve value for SAP incidence (area under the curve = 0.736, 95% CI: 0.692-0.781), with respective sensitivity and specificity values of 0.646 and 0.749 at the optimal cutoff threshold of 2.53. In multivariate analysis, high SIRI (≥2.53) was a significant independent predictor of post-SICH SAP even after controlling for other possible confounding variables (odds ratio: 5.11, 95% CI: 2.89-9.04, P < 0.001). According to the restricted cubic splines model, SAP risk increases as SIRI increases.

CONCLUSIONS

We observed that SIRI values may offer high diagnostic utility as a predictor of SAP risk among patients with SICH during the early stages of the disease.