The value of the electrocardiogram in assessing infarct size was studied using serial estimates of the MB isomer of creatine kinase (CK MB) in plasma, serial 35 lead praecordial maps in 28 patients with anterior myocardial infarction, and serial 12 lead electrocardiograms in 17 patients with inferior myocardial infarction. In patients with anterior infarcts, sigma ST, sigma R, sigma Q, sigma R/...

1269 7 135 ± 13 1510 6 164 ± 17 1920 5 320 ± 35 We recently observed a serum showing a definite LDH 6 band with an increase in CK-BB. The patient, a 77year-old man, had suffered a concussion. The serum was sent to us from the hospital to which he had beeh admitted. Serum total CK was 368 U/L (normal 0-178). Total LDH 2010 U/L (normal 100-225). Cellulose acetate electrophoresis (Helena system) t...

Background: Creatine kinase isoenzyme MB (CK-MB) activity using the immunoinhibition method has been measured in clinical laboratories. However, the presence of mitochondrial CK (MtCK) abnormally increases CK-MB activity when measured using the conventional method, which can lead to misdiagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). A new CK-MB activity assay kit that can inhibit MtCK activity ...

Objective(s): Diazinon (DZ) is an organophosphate pesticide that induces oxidative damage in different organs. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of nanomicelles containing curcuminoids (NCUR) and natural curcumin (CUR) in attenuating the oxidative damage induced by DZ in male rats. Materials and Methods: After a single intraperitoneal (IP) injection of DZ (100 mg/kg), the r...

Several studies have reported that the antioxidant properties of melatonin can provide cardiac protection through scavenging of free radicals. This study sought to investigate the efficacy of melatonin on cardiac biomarkers, myocardial-specific protein high sensitive troponin-T (hs-TnT) and creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB), in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoin...

Effects of acute and chronic desipramine treatment. We compared an immunochemical method for determination of creatine kinase (CK; EC 2.7.3.2) and lactate dehydrogenase (LD; EC 1.1.1.27) activities with the conventional electropho-retic method. Of the 105 patients included in this study, 58 were in the intensive-care unit with a preliminary diagnosis of myocardial infarction; the other 47 had d...

This multicenter study evaluated the Biosite Triage(R) Cardiac Panel as a quantitative, multimarker, whole blood system for the detection of acute myocardial infarction (MI). Optimum cutoffs for the discrimination of acute MI (n = 192 patients, 59 with MI) as determined by ROC curve analyses were as follows: 0.4 microgram/L for cardiac troponin I (cTnI); 4.3 microgram/L for the creatine kinase ...

A 50-year-old woman with metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma of the ovary had increased activities of creatine kinase (CK; EC 2.7.3.2), CK-MB isoenzyme, lactate dehydrogenase (LD; EC 1.1.1.27), and LD-2 isoenzyme in her serum. The isoenzyme activities did not show a pattern of increasing, then decreasing. Clinical findings, including electrocardiograms, did not support the diagnosis of myocardial infar...

Radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation is the curative treatment of choice for many cardiac arrhythmias. After RF ablation there is always a small localized endomyocardial necrosis, necessary to abolish the arrhythmia. We designed this study to determine the serum concentrations of several cardiac markers in patients who underwent RF catheter ablation. The study shows a higher frequency of incre...