Table 3.
Diagnostic performance of the indexes based on ROC in differentiating TPE from non-TPE
| Variables | AUC [95%CI] |
Sensiti- vity(%) |
Specifi- city(%) |
PPV (%) |
NPV (%) |
PLR [(%) |
NLR (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serum ADA |
0.680 (0.624–0.735) |
55.10 | 76.80 | 71.30 | 62.10 | 2.42 | 0.58 |
| IGRA |
0.833 (0.788–0.878) |
85.41 | 75.14 | 78.20 | 83.10 | 3.44 | 0.19 |
| Effusion ADA |
0.867 (0.825–0.908) |
80.50 | 88.10 | 87.60 | 81.20 | 6.79 | 0.22 |
|
Effusion ADA/ Serum ADA |
0.810 (0.754–0.853)) |
82.20 | 76.80 | 78.80 | 80.50 | 3.55 | 0.23 |
|
Effusion LDH/ Effusion ADA |
0.857 (0.814–0.894) |
75.14 | 85.90 | 84.80 | 76.80 | 5.32 | 0.29 |
| Combined diagnosis of five indexes |
0.919 (0.888–0.951) |
90.30 | 94.50 | 94.35 | 90.27 | 16.42 | 0.10 |