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Comparison of Mass Versus Activity of Creatine Kinase MB and Its Utility in the Early Diagnosis of Re-infarction

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Currently employed markers for the detection of acute coronary syndrome are Troponin T, CK (Creatine Kinase) and CKMB activity. CKMB activity measured by immunoinhibition method can give falsely elevated results due to the presence of atypical CK and CKBB and at times lead to the mis-diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome. Hence, CKMB mass (CKMB) measured by electrochemiluminence sandwich principle was employed. In this cross-sectional study 183 samples of 61 patients were analyzed within 6 h of diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome and followed up to 72 h. The correlation coefficient between CKMB activity and CKMBM at 4–6 h was 0.744, while at 12–24 h it was 0.909 and at 48–72 h it was 0.337. Thus there was good association between the two methods at 12–24 h but, statistically for method comparison studies and for replacing one method by another, the two methods need to be in agreement with one another. In this study the two methods are not in agreement with one another and thus analytically not replaceable. Another finding was obtained that CKMBM reached cut off levels prior to CKMB enzyme activity and hence, CKMBM is clinically better than CKMB activity to detect reinfarction.

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    Simbita A. Marwah, Hitesh Shah, Kiran Chauhan, Amit Trivedi & N. Haridas

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Marwah, S.A., Shah, H., Chauhan, K. et al. Comparison of Mass Versus Activity of Creatine Kinase MB and Its Utility in the Early Diagnosis of Re-infarction. Ind J Clin Biochem 29, 161–166 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12291-013-0329-9

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