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.