Role of liver transient elastography in detecting cirrhosis with esophageal and gastric varices and evaluating variceal severity

Table 7 Efficacy of liver stiffness values in assessing the degree of cirrhosis with EGV

Group	Cut-off	AUC	Youden index number	95% CI	sensitivity	specificity	P
Mild EGV group	≤ 9.48 KPa	0.922	0.686	0.863 ~ 0.961	90.14%	78.46%	< 0.001
Moderate EGV group	> 8.43	0.646	0.388	0.560 ~ 0.726	95.00%	43.75%	0.002
Severe EGV group	> 11.97	0.999	0.991	0.971 ~ 1.000	100.00%	99.10%	< 0.001

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