Response to letter to the editor: Mean platelet volume and platelet count values in patients with carbon monoxide poisoning

摘要

We thank Beyan et al for their interest in our article. Beyan et al emphasized that the statement "the role of platelet function in carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is not completely clear, but some studies have reported increased platelet activation and aggregation" related to cigarette smoking and not to CO poisoning. They are right in that the references are not directly related to CO poisoning. On the other hand, the mechanism mentioned in the study relates to the effect of CO on platelets. In our study, we found that CO poisoning caused platelet activation by measuring mean platelet volume (MPV) which is the opposite of this effect. We believe that this might be responsible for cardiovascular complications of CO poisoning like myocardial infarction (MI).