Fig. 2From: U-shaped relationship between platelet–lymphocyte ratio and postoperative in-hospital mortality in patients with type A acute aortic dissectionSmoothing spline fitting curve. After adjusting for age; sex; cerebrovascular disease; chronic renal failure; autologous blood (≥ 500 mL), cryoprecipitate, RBCs, plasma, and platelet transfusion; surgery type; Marfan syndrome; and operative time, we observed a U-shaped relationship between PLR and postoperative in-hospital mortality risk in patients with AAAD. Nonlinear plots are displayed with red dotted lines, and the blue dotted lines represent 95% confidence intervalsBack to article page