Utility of splenic transient elastography in assessing the presence of portal hypertension: A review

Table 2 Survey of studies where splenic stiffness estimation using transient elastography for the presence of varices was performed[27-36]

Ref.	Pathologies studied	Cut-off (in kPa)	Sensitivity	Specificity
Stefanescu et al[27], 2011	HCV/ALD	46.4	83.5	71.0
Colecchia et al[28], 2012	HCV	55.0	96.0	85.0
Sharma et al[29], 2013	ALD/HBV/HCV/CLD	40.8	94.0	76.0
Calvaruso et al[30], 2013	HCV	50.0	65.0	61.0
Fraquelli et al[31], 2014	HBV/HCV/MPD	48.0	100	60.0
Zykus et al[32], 2015	ALD/HCV/CLD	50.7	78.1	77.1
Rewisha et al[33], 2016	HCV	43.2	92.9	84.5
Tseng et al[34], 2018	HBV/HCV/AIH/PBC/NAFLD/CLD	48.9	76.0	100
Ferreira-Silva et al[35], 2023	ALD	54.0	72.2	60.9
Lantinga et al[36], 2023	ALD/NAFLD/HCV/HBV/AIH	46.4	82.0	80.0

AIH: Autoimmune hepatitis; ALD: Alcoholic liver disease; CLD: Cryptogenic liver disease; HBV: Hepatitis B virus; HCV: Hepatitis C virus; MPD: Myeloproliferative disorder; NAFLD: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; PBC: Primary biliary cholangitis.