The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Table 4 The performance of different biomarkers in the prediction of poor short-term outcome in cardio-embolic stroke

From: Cardio embolic stroke and blood biomarkers: diagnosis and predictors of short-term outcome

Biomarker	Cutoff	AUC	Sensitivity	Specificity	PPV	NPV	Accuracy	p
BNP	89	0.527	57.6	33.3	65.5	26.3	50	0.764
d-Dimer	570	0.791	90.9	66.3	81.8	72.7	79.2	0.001*
CK-MB	1.15	0.732	84.8	60	82.4	64	77.1	0.011*
CRP	25.5	0.710	60.6	60	76.9	40.9	60.4	0.021*

BNP brain natriuretic peptide, CK-MB creatine–kinase, CRP C-reactive protein, PPV positive predictive value, NPV negative predictive value
*Statistically significant

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