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Table 3 Cutoff points (generated from ROC curves) for early diagnosis of postoperative infectious complication and its prediction within 6 days for Day 3 postsurgery

From: Early diagnostic markers of sepsis after oesophagectomy (including thromboelastography)

Day 3

Cutoff

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

AST ukat/l

>0.47

88.89

41.38

 

>0.77

66.67

82.76

 

>1.28

33.33

100

PCT ug/l

>0.28

100

13.79

 

>2.02

77.78

79.31

 

>3.31

55.56

96.55

IL-6 ng/l

>43.72

100

10.34

 

>134.7

77.78

86.21

 

>219.8

44.44

96.55

CRP mg/l

>143.3

100

48.28

 

>174.6

66.67

68.97

 

>269.5

11.11

100