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Table 2 Predictive values of urine and serum/plasma NGAL for DGF in individual studies

From: Comparison of urine and blood NGAL for early prediction of delayed graft function in adult kidney transplant recipients: a meta-analysis of observational studies

Study (y)

Sampling Time (h)

AUC (95% CI)

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

Cut-off (ng/ml)

TP

FP

FN

TN

Sample size

Urine NGAL

 Parikh (2006) [8]

24

0.90 (0.71–1.00)

90.0

83.0

1000#

9

3

1

17

30

 Hall (2010) [9]

24

0.82 (0.72–0.92)

65.0

94.0

800

26

15

8

42

91

 Hollmen (2011) [11]

24

0.74 (0.64–0.83)

65.0

74.0

560

43

29

23

81

176

 Kanter (2013) [21]

24

0.71 (0.51–0.91)

85.7

61.5

128

13

9

2

14

38

 Fonseca (2013) [14]

24

0.88 (0.77–1.00)

100.0

76.0

286

18

5

0

17

40

48

0.96 (0.90–1.00)

93.0

90.0

277

17

2

1

20

40

 Cui (2015) [17]

24

0.834 (0.677–0.992)

70.0

93.7

688.3

15

6

6

96

123

48

0.897 (0.764–0.969)

80.0

96.9

295.2

17

3

4

99

123

 Lacquaniti (2016) [18]

24

0.97 (0.90–0.99)

95.8

91.9

105

21

1

1

6

29

Nieto-Rios (2016) [19]

48

0.80 (NR)

75.0

70.0

120

10

20

3

46

79

Serum or plasma NGAL

 Bataille (2011) [10]

24 h

0.97 (0.93–1.00)

93.3

88.5

400

14

3

1

23

41

 Lee (2012) [13]

24 h

0.86 (0.75–0.98)

78.6

77.8

233.3

11

10

3

35

59

 Kusaka (2012) [12]

24 h

0.99 (NR)

91.0

97.0

500

12

2

1

52

67

 Hollmen (2014) [15]

24 h

0.85 (0.79–0.91)

87.0

77.0

423

57

25

9

85

176

 Cantaluppi (2015) [16]

24 h

0.94 (NR)

90.9

80.6

532

13

7

1

29

50

 Pezeshgi (2016) [20]

24 h

0.97 (NR)

100

92

317

12

2

0

23

37

  1. TP true-positive, FP false-positive, FN false-negative, TN true-negative, NR not reported; #ng/mg