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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Transplantation. 2020 Nov;104(11):2424–2434. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000003151

Table 2.

Predictive Values and Discriminatory Ability of Pre-Transplant Peripheral Blood Immune Cell Subset Quantity and Ratios with Development of de novo DSA in the First Year Posttransplant.

Immune cell subsets (pretransplant) AUC statistic
(95% confidence
interval)
Optimal threshold
(based on Youden index)
Sensitivity Specificity
CXCR5+IFN-γ+CD8+ T cells 0.81 (0.69 - 0.92) < 3300 cells per million PBMCs 0.93 0.62
Ratio of CXCR5+IFN-γ+CD8+ T cells to combined Th1/Th2 cells 0.76 (0.63 - 0.88) < 0.3 0.93 0.62
Ratio of IFN-γ+CD8+ T cells to combined Th1/Th2 cells 0.72 (0.60 - 0.83) < 1.5 0.91 0.43
CXCR5+CD8+ T cells 0.71 (0.57 - 0.85) < 20,481 cells per million PBMCs 0.81 0.59
IFN-γ+CD8+ T cells 0.70 (0.58 - 0.82) < 10,365 cells per million PBMCs 0.74 0.63
CD8+ T cells 0.64 (0.51 - 0.78) < 164,694 cells per million PBMCs 0.83 0.44
CD4+ T cells 0.63 (0.50 - 0.75) > 523,165 cells per million PBMCs 0.74 0.56
IFN-γ+CD4+ T cells (Th1) 0.59 (0.46 - 0.72) > 2,296 cells per million PBMCs 0.87 0.35
IL-10+CD4+ T cells 0.58 (0.44 - 0.72) > 5,909 cells per million PBMCs 0.48 0.74
IL-4+CD4+ T cells (Th2) 0.58 (0.44 - 0.72) > 6,553 cells per million PBMCs 0.61 0.60
FoxP3+IL-10+CD4+ T cells (Treg) 0.53 (0.39 - 0.66) > 342 cells per million PBMCs 1.00 0.12
IL-17+CD4+ T cells (Th17) 0.48 (0.34 - 0.63) > 1,773 cells per million PBMCs 0.22 0.90