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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 34, 2469-2474, Copyright © 1988 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme-1 in serum for detection of peri- operative myocardial infarction after cardiac surgery

Z Rotenberg, JE Squires, MT Johnston, J Hoyt, RS Gibson and DE Bruns
Department of Pathology, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville 22908.

We prospectively studied changes in serum lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme-1 (LD-1, EC 1.1.1.27) in 99 consecutive patients after either coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG, n = 61), isolated cardiac-valve replacement (n = 24), or the two procedures combined (n = 14); 86 of these had no clinical evidence of peri-operative myocardial infarction (MI). Blood was sampled immediately after surgery and at 6-h intervals for up to 42 h thereafter. LD-1 was isolated by using the LD M-subunit antiserum. Samples from the non-MI patients were used to establish the reference intervals for LD-1. By 24 h after surgery, mean serum LD-1 values were higher (P less than 0.001) in non-MI patients who underwent isolated valve replacement (222 +/- 74 U/L) or combined CABG and valve replacement (266 +/- 58 U/L) than in 50 non-MI patients who underwent CABG alone (134 +/- 42 U/L). Separate reference intervals were determined for CABG and other patients at each sampling time. By 24 h after operation, LD-1 exceeded these reference intervals in the 10 CABG and two combined-procedure patients in whom other evidence of MI was present. Measurement of LD-1 24 to 42 h after cardiac surgery appears to be a useful test for the diagnosis of perioperative MI.




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