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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 21.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Radiol. 2019 Jan 3;49(3):332–341. doi: 10.1007/s00247-018-4319-1

Table 4.

Diagnostic performance of MRI and laboratory-based biomarkers for indicating presence of radiologic portal hypertension

AUROC 95% CI P-value Cut-offvalue Sensitivity Specificity
Liver stiffness (kPa) 0.98 0.95–1.00 <0.0001 >3.9 92.3% 93.6%
Spleen stiffness (kPa) 0.96 0.89–1.00 <0.0001 >7.3 90.9% 93.3%
Liver cT1 (ms) 0.86 0.75–0.97 0.0003 >1,001.3 84.6% 75.9%
Liver T2 (ms) 0.63 0.44–0.81 0.19 >60.0 76.9% 51.6%
Liver ADC (×10−3mm2/s) 0.55 0.35–0.75 0.61 <1.18 53.8% 64.5%
APRI score 0.87 0.76–1.00 0.0002 >0.66 91.7% 80.0%
FIB-4 score 0.88 0.75–1.00 <0.0001 >0.76 84.6% 93.3%

ADC apparent diffusion coefficient, APRI aspartate aminotransferase (AST)-to-platelet ratio index, AUROC area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, CI confidence interval, cT1 iron-corrected T1, FIB-4 fibrosis-4