Diagnostic utility of the serum-ascites albumin gradient in Mexican patients with ascites related to portal hypertension.
Enrique Cervantes PérezGabino Cervantes GuevaraGabino Cervantes PérezGuillermo Alonso Cervantes CardonaClotilde Fuentes OrozcoKevin Josué Pintor BelmontesBertha Georgina Guzmán RamírezLaura Lizeth Reyes AguirreFrancisco José Barbosa CamachoAldo Bernal HernándezAlejandro Gonzalez-OjedaPublished in: JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology (2020)
The SAAG showed poor diagnostic performance with low sensitivity but high specificity. The diagnostic accuracy of AFA is superior to that of SAAG in discriminating between PH and non-PH ascites.
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