OBJECTIVES The study evaluated the incidence and predictors of creatine kinase-MB isoenzyme (CK-MB) elevation after successful coronary intervention using current devices, and assessed the influence on in-hospital course and midterm survival. BACKGROUND The CK-MB elevation after coronary intervention predominantly using balloon angioplasty correlates with late cardiac events of myocardial inf...

Cops and Robbers is a pursuit and evasion game played on graphs that has received much attention. We consider an extension of Cops and Robbers, distance k Cops and Robbers, where the cops win if at least one of them is of distance at most k from the robber in G. The cop number of a graph G is the minimum number of cops needed to capture the robber in G. The distance k analogue of the cop number...

BACKGROUND Many studies have used creatinine kinase (CK), myocardial bound for CK (CK-MB), and cardiac troponin I (cTnI) and T (cTnT) to evaluate myocardial cells injury after ablation. We applied measurements of the blood concentration of cardio-specific biomarkers as surrogates for the injured cell mass. AIM To clarify which of the standard biomarkers are useful in the evaluation and quanti...

We examined the clinical and analytical performance of two immunoassays (Becton Dickinson CK-MB; Ciba-Corning Magic Lite CK-MB) in which monoclonal anti-CK-MB antibodies are used for directly measuring creatine kinase (EC 2.7.3.2) isoenzyme MB (CK-MB) in serum, and also one electrophoretic method (Ciba-Corning). Within- and between-assay precision for both immunoassays was good at the upper ref...

The rates of degradation of creatine kinase subunits, M-CK and B-CK subunits, were measured in cultured myogenic cells and in subcultured fibroblasts. In differentiated myogenic cells, the myotubes, both M-CK and B-CK subunits are synthesized. Their rates of degradation were compared. The M-CK subunits is slightly more stable and is degraded with an average apparent half-life of 75 h, whereas t...

Gutjahr, Welzl and Woeginger found polynomial-time algorithms for a number of digraph homomorphism problems. These algorithms are based on the X-enumeration, the Ck-extended X-enumeration and the X-graft construction. In this note we show how the last two methods can be combined to obtain new polynomial-time algorithms, which also work for list homomorphisms. In the process we are able to exten...

It is not uncommon for a rheumatologist to get a request for evaluating a patient with persistent elevation of serum creatine (phospho) kinase (CK) level (hyper-CK-emia) especially if this laboratory abnormality is persistent. We present a descriptive analysis of 16 consecutive adult patients seen with a condition called idiopathic benign hyper-CK-emia at a tertiary care Rheumatology Clinic in ...

Two new pyrene-cored covalent organic polymers (COPs), CK-COP-1 and CK-COP-2, were synthesized via the one-step polymerization of two thiophene-based isomers, 1,3,6,8-tetra(thiophene-2-yl) pyrene (L1 ) and 1,3,6,8-tetra(thiophene-3-yl) pyrene (L2 ). The resulting pyrene-cored COPs exhibit rather different surface areas of 54 m2 g-1 and 615 m2g-1 for CK-COP-1 and CK-COP-2, respectively. The CO2 ...