Significance of Heparin-Binding Protein and D-dimers in the Early Diagnosis of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis

Table 5

The sensitivities, specificities, positive predictive values (PPV), and negative predictive values (NPV) for the peripheral blood leukocyte count (WBC) as a marker of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.

WBC cutoff	Sensitivity	Specificity	PPV	NPV
≥6000/μL	61.3%	71.9%	67.9%	65.7%
≥7000/μL	41.9%	75.0%	61.9%	57.1%
≥8000/μL	29.0%	90.6%	75.0%	56.9%
≥9000/μL	22.6%	93.7%	77.8%	55.6%
≥10,000/μL	12.9%	96.9%	80.0%	53.4%