Muscle symptoms in patients who are treated with statins and have normal creatine kinase levels are not well understood. To report biopsy-confirmed myopathy and normal creatine kinase levels associated with statin use. Case reports from preliminary analysis of an ongoing clinical trial. Clinical ...
To test the hypothesis that patients with normal serum levels of creatine kinase (CK) but elevated percentages of MB isoenzyme fractions in suspected myocardial infarction may have sustained clinically significant events, we studied the hospital course of 347 consecutive patients admitted with suspected ...
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32% of patients with T wave inversion and 48% of patients with ST depression will have AMI, as diagnosed using serum creatine kinase (CK). Regardless of whether these patients have AMI, T wave inversion and ST depression are powerful prognostic markers (Figure 1). ST depression is an ...
As a result, the test caused muscle damage evidenced by an increase in circulating creatine kinase and myoglobin. This was accompanied by an increase in protein carbonyls in plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Activities of antioxidant enzymes (catalase, glutathione peroxidase and reductase,...
Decreased levels of high energy phosphate flux rate have been reported in patients with LVH due to aortic stenosis [323], and in numerous animal models of pressure overload or myocardial remodeling after severe ischemic injury [289,324–327]. In early mild LVH, creatine phosphate/ATP levels ...
(NT-proBNP), creatine kinase isoenzyme (CK-MB), and soluble CD105 (sCD105) levels were compared between the two groups before and after treatment, along with adverse reactions.χ2test andttest were used.ResultsTwo months after treatment, the frequency of angina pectoris attack was (2.04±0.31...
Deficiency of carnitine palmitoyltransferase II (CTP II), was the cause of the muscle pain syndrome and myoglobinuria following strenuous exercise in an otherwise healthy young man. During fasting, serum creatine kinase remained low and ketogenesis was normal. The clearance of a fat emulsion and ...
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