ALB and portal hypertension: The AFTPclassified ascites correctly only 55.6% of the time, and thus was replaced with theSAAG score due to greater diagnostic accuracy.9 A SAAG score >1.1 g/dLindicates that a patient has portal hypertension, most notably with an accuracy of96.7%.1 In our patient, serum albumin level is 1.8 mg/dL and the ascitesfluid albumin level is 0.7 mg/dL resulting in an SAAG score of 1.1, which isnondiagnostic for portal hypertension as the cause of ascites.