CONCLUSIONS
Prediction of chronic and refractory cases at diagnosis will be helpful to achieve higher treatment success. We conclude that higher patient age, lower ALC at initial diagnosis may have some negative effect on chronicity, while gender, the severity of symptoms, presence of infection history, platelet count and MPV at diagnosis and first-line treatment modality does not have any important effect.
The authors declare no conflict of interest. There was no financial support from any person or institution for this study.