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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 34, 1067-1070, Copyright © 1988 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Creatine kinase MM isoforms in serum after cardiac surgery

AA Keshgegian, PK Bhagat, JA Lease and J Balocchi
Department of Pathology, Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19151.

We evaluated creatine kinase (CK; EC 2.7.3.2) MM3:MM1 isoform ratios in the serum of cardiac patients immediately after cardiac surgery for the diagnosis of perioperative myocardial injury. The mean ratio was 4.8 (range, 1.4-10.7) in 22 patients who had postoperative myocardial complications and 4.6 (1.3-9.6) in 66 patients who did not. By the first postoperative day the ratio had decreased substantially in both groups of patients. The isoform ratio did not correlate with the concentration of total CK, CK-MB, total lactate dehydrogenase (LD), or the incidence of LD1:LD2 or LD5:LD2 ratio reversal. Of these measurements, CK-MB and LD concentrations differed most between the groups of patients; parallel testing of CK-MB and LD showed an optimized sensitivity and specificity of 77% and 87%, respectively. We conclude that analysis for CK-MM isoforms does not add information in the period immediately after cardiac surgery; concentrations of CK-MB and LD correlate with myocardial injury, but the sensitivity and specificity of these measurements may not be high enough for clinical utility.




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