Presepsin teardown - pitfalls of biomarkers in the diagnosis and prognosis of bacterial infection in cirrhosis

Figure 1 Presepsin levels in patients with cirrhosis according to presence or absence and severity of bacterial infections (n = 216). Median presepsin levels are significantly higher in patients with infection as compared to those without and associated to the severity of the infection. Lines denote median values, boxes represent 25^th-75^th percentiles and whiskers indicate the 5^th-95^th range. P values were calculated by Mann-Whitney U-test or Kruskal-Wallis H-test as appropriate. INF: Bacterial infection.