Utility of urinary presepsin in the diagnosis of pyelonephritis: a cross-sectional study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 3 Ability of urinary presepsin and serum presepsin to detect acute pyelonephritis

	AUC	Cutoff	Sensitivity	Specificity	PPV	NPV	LR +	LR-
Urinary presepsin	0.66 [0.52–0.80]	3650 pg/mL	0.40 [0.24–0.58]	0.96 [0.79–1.00]	0.93 [0.68–1.00]	0.52 [0.37–0.68]	9.60 [1.35–68.23]	0.62 [0.47–0.83]
Serum presepsin	0.50 [0.34–0.66]	1522 pg/mL	0.03 [0.00–0.16]	0.84 [0.64–0.95]	0.20 [0.01–0.72]	0.40 [0.26–0.54]	0.19 [0.02–1.59]	1.15 [0.96–1.38]

Results are expressed as values [95% confidence interval]
Abbreviations: AUC Area under the ROC curve, PPV Positive predictive value, NPV Negative predictive value, LR + Positive likelihood ratio, LR − Negative likelihood ratio

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