Cross-sectional study evaluates diagnostic indices for iron deficiency anemia in cirrhotic patients, indicating potential improvements in diagnosis.
Key Points
This study aims to assess the diagnostic effectiveness of reticulocyte and red cell indices for identifying iron deficiency anemia in cirrhotic patients.
Cross-sectional study involving groups: healthy controls, IDA non-cirrhotic, IDA cirrhotic, and non-IDA cirrhotic patients.
Complete blood counts and reticulocyte indices analyzed using Sysmex XN-1000.
Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis to evaluate diagnostic performance.
CHr achieved the highest performance with AUC of 0.925 at cut-off ≤ 25.7 pg.
%MicroR showed strong discriminative ability with AUC = 0.906 at cut-off > 10.8%.
Ferritin had good performance with AUC = 0.858 at cut-off ≤ 101 μg/L.