Research Article
The Diagnosis of Invasive and Noninvasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis by Serum and Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Galactomannan Assay
Table 2
The diagnostic values of the BALF-GM and serum-GM assays at the different cutoff indices.
| | Cutoff | Sensitivity | Specificity | PPV | NPV |
| | BALF-GM | | ≥0.5 | 85.7% | 62.4% | 40.7% | 93.5% | | ≥1 | 67.9% | 79.6% | 50.0% | 89.2% | | ≥1.5 | 65.4% | 92.5% | 70.8% | 90.5% | | ≥2 | 46.4% | 96.8% | 81.2% | 85.7% |
| | Serum-GM | | ≥0.5 | 67.9% | 93.5% | 76.0% | 90.6% | | ≥1 | 50.0% | 98.9% | 93.3% | 86.8% | | ≥1.5 | 25.0% | 98.9% | 87.5% | 81.4% | | ≥2 | 25.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 81.6% |
| | Culture | | | 50.0% | 98.9% | 93.3% | 86.8% |
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