Egyptian Liver Journal

Table 3 Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis of TE, ALBI, ALBI-PLT, and PALBI in patients with and without esophageal varices and small versus large varices

From: Prediction of esophageal varices in patients with HCV-related cirrhosis using albumin-bilirubin, platelets-albumin-bilirubin score, albumin-bilirubin-platelets grade, and GAR

Varices detection
	ALBI	ALBI-PLT	PALBI	TE	GAR
AUC	0.794	0.784	0.708	0.956	0.562
SE	0.0184	0.0178	0.0225	0.0106
P	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.197
95% CI	0.758–0.831	0.748–0.821	0.664–0.752	0.931–0.973	0.469–0.654
Cut-off	>− 2.43	> 3	>− 2.28	> 20
Sensitivity	81.28	77.34	62.1	83.64
Specificity	74.89	72.93	76.4	91.62
PPV	58.9	55.86	53.8	60.5
NPV	90	87.90	82	97.3
Large varices detection
	ALBI	ALBI-PLT	PALBI	TE	GAR
AUC	0.744	0.582	0.754	0.561	0.545
P	0.001	0.036	0.001	0.441	0.5431
95% CI	0.678–0.803	0.511–0.651	0.688–0.811	0.421–0.695	0.422–0.663
Cut-off	>− 1.88	> 4	>− 2.12
Sensitivity	92.96	39.44	87.32
Specificity	60.61	75	64.39
PPV	55.9	45.9	56.9
NPV	94.1	69.7	90.4

TE transient elastography, PPV positive predictive value, NPV negative predictive value

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