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The enzyme may become deactivated by experimental manipulations leading to a low value or underestimation. In an extreme situation, a false negative result could result in the missed diagnosis of AMI.

In haemolysed blood samples, interference from adenylate kinase, an enzyme released from red blood cells which catalyses the same reaction as CK-MB, could result in false positive results.

This problem is irrelevant with mass assays because the antibodies are specific for the CK-MB and the presence of adenylate kinase has no effect on the assay.

It has also been reported to be more sensitive in detecting small injuries to the myocardium that occur in patients with non-ST elevation ACS.

These interferences have no such effects when mass assays are used because the antibodies are specific for CK-MB and do not cross-react with these compounds. This sensitivity and specificity changes with the time of presentation after symptom onset. Measurement of CK-MB activity is most reliable in the hours period after symptom onset. Studies comparing the utilisation of these assays for the early diagnosis of AMI have shown that CK-MB mass reaches the cut-off point in serum several hours before CK-MB activity and have claimed its superiority within 4—8 hours after symptom onset.

This observation has been substantiated by different groups. Severe skeletal muscle damage e. In these situations, the CK-MB to CK ratio or cardiac troponins can be used to differentiate cardiac and non-cardiac pathologies. They were discovered by Weavers in This isoenzyme is converted into other forms by the action of the plasma enzyme carboxypeptidase N CPN according to the following reaction: Therefore, in the event of myocardial injury, it will require a several-fold increase in the marker before it exceeds the upper limit of the reference range.

CK-MB, being a relatively large molecule, may take even longer to reach the circulation and become important diagnostically. When myocardial injury occurs, there is a sudden release and rise of the tissue isoforms, i. By using CK-MB isoforms effectively each patient acts as his own control, and a release of only a small amount of the marker is required to raise the ratio much earlier to a significant level.

Creatine kinase MB isoforms are reported to be released within 1 hour after symptom onset and peak at 4 hours. One study reported a sensitivity and specificity of The test was also positive in patients with hypothyroidism and rhabdomyolysis.

A study by Laurino et al. Myoglobin is a small heme protein 17 K Da that functions in oxygen binding and transport. It stores oxygen in red muscles skeletal and cardiac and, under conditions of severe oxygen deprivation, it releases the oxygen to be used by muscle mitochondria for synthesis of adenosine triphosphate ATP. The myoglobin content of heart muscle is reported to be 2.

Males have higher levels than females because they have bigger body size and muscle bulk. Myoglobin is one of the best available early markers of AMI within 3 hours after symptom onset. The relationship between AMI and high myoglobin levels was first reported in Several investigators have confirmed a significant role for myoglobin in the early diagnosis of AMI, the most promising role being in the early exclusion of AMI in patients presenting within 6 hours after symptoms onset.

However, a positive result should be used with caution, as there are many situations that could give rise to myoglobin elevation in the absence of AMI. Myoglobin is a non-specific marker protein for myocardial injury.

Serum myoglobin is raised in skeletal muscle damage including intramuscular injection, exhaustive exercise, muscle trauma, direct current shock cardioversion, and also in patients and carriers of genetic muscle disease. Severe renal disease leads to failure of clearance of myoglobin from the circulation. The concentration tends to rise and the circulation time is prolonged in these patients. Although these factors interfere with the specificity of the test, in clinical practice most of them could be ruled out by careful attention to history taking and simple blood tests.

Coronary angiography is the most definitive method to assess the success of thrombolytic treatment, but this procedure is invasive, carries morbidity and mortality risks, requires a catheterisation laboratory team, and is not widely available.

Biochemical markers like myoglobin among others offer an alternative non-invasive, safe and potentially sensitive method for the detection of reperfusion. This can be done by monitoring the changes in serum concentration immediately before and 60 or 90 minutes after initiation of thrombolysis.

Patients who successfully reperfuse their occluded artery show a higher and early concentration peak of the biochemical marker compared to those who fail to reperfuse. Thus a patent artery does not invariably indicate tissue reperfusion. Accurate markers of tissue reperfusion are required. The combination of serial lead ECG, clinical features, and serial cardiac markers testing offer a practical alternative to coronary angiography for assessment of reperfusion status.

It is composed of amino acids. It was introduced by Glatz et al. This makes the plasma estimation of H-FABP a suitable indicator for the early detection and quantification of myocardial tissue injury. Heart-type FABP is released into plasma within 2 hours after symptom onset and is reported to peak at about 4—6 hours and to return to normal base line level in 20 hours.

Serial measurements of H-FABP in the first 24 hours after onset of symptoms may be potentially useful for: the diagnosis of AMI; to identify patients who need early reperfusion treatment; to identify patients who reperfuse their infarct related artery; to detect re-infarction if it occurs early and for estimation of infarct size. Heart-type FABP exists in high concentrations in the heart only. However, this protein is not totally cardiac specific and occurs in other tissues although in much lower concentrations.

Gorski et al. The concentrations of these markers were not affected by dialysis. H-FABP is increased in the plasma of healthy volunteers after strenuous exercise. Myoglobin and H-FABP share many key features: 1 low molecular weight proteins 17 and 15Kda, respectively ; 2 abundant concentrations in the cytosol of myocardial cells; 3 substrate for mitochondrial oxidation oxygen and fatty acids, respectively and 4 both are released within 2 hours after symptom onset, peak early 6 hours and return to normal baseline concentration within 24 hours.

Both proteins are present in the heart and skeletal muscle in different concentrations. The concentration of myoglobin in heart and skeletal muscle is 2. The myoglobin content of skeletal muscle is twice that of the heart. H-FABP is therefore more cardio-specific than myoglobin. The normal ratio of myoglobin: H-FABP in the myocardium is about , whereas the ratio in skeletal muscle is in the order of depending on muscle type. A myoglobin: H-FABP ratio that is around is considered to be specific for the heart and a ratio that is between is more specific to skeletal muscle damage.

However, the use of this ratio should not be a rigid criterion as overlaps do occur. The troponin complex is found on the thin filament actin of all types of striated muscle fast, slow, and cardiac. Its function is to regulate calcium dependent contraction of muscles. They are designated with a letter that refers to the function of the troponin protein; TnC binds calcium; TnI inhibits the action of the enzyme actomyosin adenosine triphosphatase; TnT binds to tropomyosin.

Cardiac TnT has more tissue distribution and more free cytoplasmic concentration and is released as a complex with the other cardiac troponin T-I-C. Cardiac TnI is released more in the binary form troponin I-C complex. The half-life of cTnT in circulation is minutes and this long diagnostic window is thought to be due to the continuous release of the marker from myocardial cells after necrosis, and not due to slow clearance from the circulation.

It was found that the group that had elevated concentrations of cTnT had an increased risk of cardiac events and the higher the cTnT the more frequent the complications. Patients were followed-up for 6 months for cardiac complications. The risk of further AMI and death was 4. The incidence of complications in this group was very high: cardiac death 12 patients , coronary revascularisation 22 patients , death and non-fatal AMI 18 patients.

Cardiac-TnT measurement can help select the appropriate patients for treatment with antithrombotics. However, patients with cTnT greater than or equal to 0. Elevated cTnT concentration has been reported in a significant numbers of patients with chronic renal failure.

These levels do not seem to be affected by haemodialysis, with elevations persisting after treatment. There is however, a slightly higher rate of positive results with cTnT assays in some patients with chronic renal failure and acute or chronic muscle disease. During foetal development both sTnI and cTnI are expressed in the myocardium; however, at birth, the cTnI remains as the only isoform present in the human myocardium.

Cardiac-TnI was first reported as a biochemical marker of myocardial injury in and has since been shown to be a very sensitive and specific marker for the diagnosis of AMI. Cardiac-TnI is cardiac specific and its concentration in normal and disease free populations is undetectable or very low. Peak Practice treats its last patient. Peak Practice. Topics Television industry.

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