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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 38, 2396-2400, Copyright © 1992 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Creatine kinase MB isoforms in patients with skeletal muscle injury: ramifications for early detection of acute myocardial infarction

AH Wu, XM Wang, TG Gornet and J Ordonez-Llanos
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Medical School, Houston 77030.

We measured total creatine kinase (CK), CK-MB isoenzyme, and the MB isoforms in 202 serum and plasma samples from nine groups of patients and normal individuals: 39 with acute myocardial infarction (MI), divided according to time between the onset of chest pain and blood collection (1-6 h, 7-12 h, and 13-48 h); 26 with chest pain for whom an MI was ruled out, sampled at admission; 17 undergoing bypass surgery or cardiac catheterization, sampled within 6 h after either procedure; 17 with acute skeletal muscle injury, sampled within 8 h after injury; 30 marathon runners immediately after a race; 17 runners and other athletes > 12 h after training or a race; 12 with cerebral injury or seizures, sampled at admission; 8 with closed head injury, sampled at admission; and 38 normal subjects. CK-MB (relative index) and MB isoforms (MB2/MB1) were respectively increased in 15% and 75% of MI patients 1-6 h after onset, 94% and 94% after 7-12 h, and 88% and 8% after 12 h, and in 87% and 82% of cardiac surgery patients. MB isoforms were increased in most patients with acute skeletal muscle trauma and in subjects examined after exercise, but were within normal limits in patients for whom MI was ruled out, patients with cerebral trauma, and normal individuals. The relative index of MB/total CK was normal in essentially all individuals in the last groups, including those with acute skeletal muscle trauma. We concluded that the CK-MB isoform ratio is increased in both acute skeletal muscle injury and MI. The isoform ratio is most useful for distinguishing recent from old (> 12 h) injury.


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