Comparison of Current Diagnostic Criteria for Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure
Fig 2
Comparison of survival among patients with ACLF at enrollment defined by different criteria.
Overall 394 eligible patients who qualified for at least APASL criteria for ACLF at enrollment were divided into 3 groups: patients satisfying APASL criteria alone for ACLF at enrollment (group A), patients satisfying both APASL and CMA criteria but not EASL-CLIF criteria for ACLF at enrollment (group B), and patients satisfying EASL-CLIF criteria in addition to APASL criteria for ACLF at enrollment (group C). In comparison with patients in group A and group B, the 90-day survival was significantly lower for patients in group C (log-rank test: P < 0.001). Besides, significantly lower survival was also observed for patients in group B, as compared to patients in group A (log-rank test: P < 0.05).