Mean Platelet Volume: A Possible Predictor for Patients with Decompensated Chronic Heart Failure.

Purpose: Despite all medical efforts and discoveries, heart failure (HF) remains one of the most important and common public health problems, with high mortality and hospitalization rates, due to decompensation of HF. In the present study, we aimed to identify a predictive factor through which we can evaluate the risk of readmission and mortality in the first year, given the initial admission of a patient with decompensated heart failure.

Patients And Methods: The parameter we have investigated is the mean platelet volume (MPV).