CLU and hereditary elliptocytosis: To further reveal the implications of clusterin expression in HBV-ACLF, multivariate analysis of variables was performed by placing into the logistic regression all clinical variables comparing HBV-non-ACLF and HBV-ACLF patients with P less than 0.05 in Table 1, including clusterin, HE, PTA, WBC, NC, LC, NLR, INR, and TBIL.