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Laboratory infarction diagnostics are based on the detection of elevated serum activities of creatine kinase (CK) Creatine kinase Isoenzyme MB (CKMB) and Transaminases. Determination of these cardiac marker enzymes permits the diagnosis of transmural myocardial infarction. However in such patients the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction can be confirmed by the clinical symptoms and changes in the ECG, in addition to the enzyme assays. The 50 AMI patients selected in the present study were those admitted to the ICCU of Shri Krishna Hospital, Karamsad. The blood samples were taken at Zero hours (i.e. at the time of admission of the patient). Within 6 hrs of the starting of chest pain, 1.5 million units of streptokinase were mixed with 100 to 150ml of normal saline and administered by infusion over a period of one hour. The blood samples were further collected at intervals of 6 hrs, 14hrs, 32hrs, 48hrs, 5th day and 7th day. The blood samples were analyzed for CK, CKMB, SGOT, α HBDH and Cardiac specific Troponin T. By 6hrs the CK and CKMB values had started rising, the rise continuing at 14hrs with peak values at 32hrs. The CK showed a slight decrease by 48 hrs. The cardiac Troponin T showed wide time window from 4 hrs to 7th day for detecting myocardial damage. The maximum cardiac Troponin T values were during the first 24hrs. Cardiac Troponin T in serum appears to be a more sensitive and early indicator of myocardial cell injury in comparison to CKMB.
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Shah, H., Haridas, N. A serial follow up study of cardiac marker enzymes during the week after acute myocardial infarction. Indian J Clin Biochem 22, 33–36 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02912878
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