Neutrophil lymphocyte index, heart and covid-19

Infection with the new SARS-CoV2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19 disease, causes myocardial damage in a significant subgroup of patients This has been related to the presence of systemic and myocardial inflammation where various inflammatory markers are involved, one of them being the lymphocyte neutrophil ratio The objective of this article is to describe the relationship of the lymphocytic neutrophil ratio, as a cardiac biomarker, with the myocardial damage that can appear during infection by the disease A non-systematic review of the evidence published in different databases was carried out and 37 bibliographies on the subject were selected © 2020, Cuban Society of Cardiology, Cuban Institute of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery All rights reserved