Research Article

Serum Clusterin: A Potential Marker for Assessing the Clinical Severity and Short-Term Prognosis of Hepatitis B Virus-Related Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure

Table 4

Comparison of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, sensitivity, and specificity by the receiver operating characteristic curve for identifying hepatitis B virus-related acute-on-chronic liver failure.

VariableAUC95% CICutoff valueSensitivitySpecificity

PTA (%)0.975(0.000, 0.050)40%98.4%65.8%
INR0.976(0.954, 0.998)1.594.4%88.9%
Total bilirubin (mg/dL)0.888(0.828, 0.948)5.094.8%69.8%
Clusterin (μg/mL)0.964(0.011, 0.061)10593.7%90.7%

Abbreviations: AUC: area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; PTA: prothrombin activity; INR: international normalized ratio; CI: confidence intervals.