Table 4.

Summary of ultrasound elastography studies assessing CKD and normal kidneys.

							Sens.	Specif.
No. Pat.	Tech.	Parameter	CKD	Normal	Cut-off	AUC	(%)	(%)	P value	Author
98	SE	SIV	1.81±0.88	0.42±0.30	0.935	0.956	88	95	0.001	Menzilcioglu et al., 2015
45	SWE	YM (kPa)	9.4	4.4	5.3	0.78	80	75	0.02	Samir et al., 2015
195	SWE	SWV (m/s)	2.00±0.29 (sev.)	2.81±0.36	2.33	0.895	96.4	78.4	0.001	Hu et al., 2014
			2.47±0.39 (mod.)		2.5	0.63	71.2	69.8	0.001
			2.60±0.37(mild)		2.65	0.735	63.8	75	0.001
391	SWE	SWV (m/s)	1.69±0.42	2.15±0.51	1.88	0.752	71.87	69.69	0.001	Guo et al., 2013
104	SWE	SWV (m/s)	2.06±0.79	2.26±0.81	2.26	0.692	86.7	48.3	0.008	Bob et al., 2015
45	SWE	SWV (m/s)	2.74 ± 0.57 (CKD1)	__	__	__	__	__	>0.05 1	Wang, et al., 2014
			2.30 ± 0.27 (CKD2)
			2.85 ± 0.26 (CKD3)
			2.60 ± 0.40 (CKD4)

¹ comparison between CKD stages.

No data available = '—'.