Parma, Italy - Authors of a new, prospective, multicenter study say their research is the first to clearly show a link between elevated creatine kinase MB (CK-MB) post-PCI and increased risk of ...

Definitions for what constitutes elevation of creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) vary widely among centers. Setting absolute rather than relative thresholds may help pinpoint clinically relevant levels of the ...

For assessing myocardial injury following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), troponin I is overly sensitive and fails to distinguish procedure-related myocardial infarction (MI) from minor ...

DALLAS, Aug. 20 – A test commonly used to diagnose heart attacks may also identify patients at increased risk of death after balloon angioplasty, according to a study in today's rapid access issue of ...

Cleveland, OH - Patients who develop even modest increases of creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) after PCI are at an increased risk of death within the first 4 months postprocedure, a new study indicates.

It has been known for 50 years that transaminase activity increases in patients with acute myocardial infarction. With the development of creatine kinase (CK), biomarkers of cardiac injury began to ...

Cardiac troponin I and T assays are indeed highly sensitive for the detection of myocardial injury. Approximately 30% of patients previously diagnosed with unstable angina with no increase in creatine ...

Statins are a class of lipid-lowering drugs. They are normally well tolerated; however, some studies have attributed statins to several side effects including an increased level of creatine kinase. A ...