The combination of MELD score and ICG liver testing predicts length of stay in the ICU and hospital mortality in liver transplant recipients

Table 4 Receiver operating characteristic analysis of MELD, ICG-PDR, bilirubin and factor V to predict the length of stay in the ICU and in the hospital as well as hospital mortality

	Cut-off value	AUC	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	p
ICU stay
MELD	25	0.67	63	74	0.05
ICG-PDR (%/min)¹	20	0.77	70	74	0.001
Bilirubin (μmol/l)²	110	0.68	67	65	0.03
Factor V (%)³	40	0.75	67	74	0.002
Hospital stay
MELD	23	0.81	100	54	0.001
ICG-PDR (%/min)¹	20	0.67	77	62	0.08
Bilirubin (μmol/l)²	110	0.75	92	62	0.01
Factor V (%)³	50	0.52	77	40	0.80
Hospital mortality
MELD	25	0.85	100	59	0.02
ICG-PDR (%/min)¹	20	0.79	100	59	0.05
Bilirubin (μmol/l)²	110	0.68	100	54	0.25
Factor V (%)³	40	0.72	100	44	0.16

Abbreviations: AUC, area under the curve. Footnotes: ¹) determined within 6 hours after ICU admission, ²) peak values within 7 days, ³) after 24 hours.

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