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. 2015 May 6;26(11):2840–2851. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2014080797

Table 4.

Diagnostic performances of the urinary biomarkers in detecting any type of AR, TCMR, all ABMR (i.e., ABMR with or without associated tubulointerstitial inflammation), mixed rejection (i.e., ABMR with i+t≠0), and pure ABMR (i.e., ABMR with i+t=0)

Biomarker ROC–Based Discrimination Measures PPV NPV
AUC (95% CI)a AUC P Value Sensitivity Specificity
AR
 CXCL10 74.4 (68.1 to 80.8) <0.001 59.0 83.3 57.5 84.1
 CXCL10:Cr 76.1 (70.0 to 82.2) <0.001 65.4 76.4 51.5 85.2
 CXCL9 71.6 (64.9 to 78.2) <0.001 58.4 84.5 59.2 84.1
 CXCL9:Cr 71.2 (63.7 to 78.7) <0.001 63.6 78.0 52.7 84.8
TCMR
 CXCL10 72.6 (56.9 to 88.2) <0.01 60.0 79.3 12.5 97.6
 CXCL10:Cr 79.9 (67.7 to 92.2) <0.001 70.0 76.4 12.7 98.1
 CXCL9 85.7 (73.8 to 97.7) <0.001 80.0 87.0 23.5 98.9
 CXCL9:Cr 90.5 (84.0 to 97.1) <0.001 90.0 84.0 22.0 99.4
All ABMR
 CXCL10 74.7 (68.0 to 81.4) <0.001 60.3 83.3 54.7 86.2
 CXCL10:Cr 75.5 (69.0 to 82.1) <0.001 64.7 77.3 48.9 86.7
 CXCL9 69.4 (62.3 to 76.6) <0.001 55.2 84.5 54.4 84.9
 CXCL9:Cr 68.3 (60.0 to 76.5) <0.001 59.7 78.0 47.6 85.2
Mixed rejection
 CXCL10 80.0 (71.3 to 88.7) <0.001 74.2 83.3 40.4 95.5
 CXCL10:Cr 81.9 (73.9 to 89.8) <0.001 77.4 78.3 35.3 95.8
 CXCL9 78.0 (68.2 to 87.8) <0.001 71.0 84.5 41.5 94.9
 CXCL9:Cr 77.8 (66.8 to 88.8) <0.001 71.0 84.5 41.5 94.9
Pure ABMR
 CXCL10 70.2 (61.5 to 79.0) <0.001 73.0 61.6 25.7 92.6
 CXCL10:Cr 70.2 (61.4 to 79.0) <0.001 67.6 62.1 24.5 91.3
 CXCL9 62.1 (53.0 to 71.2) 0.002 50.0 74.0 25.7 89.2
 CXCL9:Cr 60.1 (49.1 to 71.1) 0.03 50.0 78.0 29.0 89.7

The C statistics, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive values (PPVs), and NPVs are shown.

a

95% CIs were generated by 2000 stratified bootstrap replicates.