Plasma cortisol, urinary 17-hydroxycorticoids, and urinary vanilyl mandelic acid after acute myocardial infarction.

Plasma cortisol, urinary 17-hydroxycorticoids, and urinary vanilyl mandelic acid after acute myocardial infarction.

Serial estimations ofplasma cortisol were made on 24 patients with acute myocardial infarction. Raised levels were found in 23 patients. The maximal level was observed within 12 hours of infarction in 78 per cent and between I2 and 24 hours in 22 per cent ofpatients. A positive correlation was found between the maximal cortisol level and the maximal levels of serum aspartate aminotransferase an...

Urinary methylmalonic acid in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

OBJECTIVE To investigate urinary methylmalonic acid (uMMA) levels and their relationship with markers of myocyte necrosis and inflammation in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study participants consisted of 80 consecutive patients with AMI and 72 age- and sex-matched consecutive controls. Of the patients, 38 had ST segment elevation myocardial infarcti...

Increased urinary urobilinogen following acute myocardial infarction.

Increased urinary neopterin in acute myocardial infarction.

Kabadi et al. present additional data on patients with an established interference in the TDxJIM.x Total P4 assay (1, 2). This interference gives rise to abnormally low total T4 values in patients who have no apparent clinical thyroid abnormalities or laboratory results supporting a hypothyroid condition. The cause for this discrepant behavior has been attributed to an entity in patients’ sera ...

Serum cortisol, plasma free fatty acids, and urinary cathecholamines as indicators of complications in acute myocardial infarction.

Levels of serum cortisol, plasma free fatty acids (FFA), and uiinary catecholamines were collected in 31 patients with acute myocardial infarction on the day of admission to the coronary care unit (samples obtained from 15 patients with diseases other than myocardial infarction were considered as controls). These values were correlated with the presence or subsequent development of left ventric...