TY - JOUR
T1 - Diagnosing Myocardial Infarction with a Radioimmunoassay for the B-Monomer of the Creatine Phosphokinase Isoenzymes
AU - Heal, Albert
AU - Al-Sheikh, Wajih
AU - Pefkaros, Kyriacos C.
AU - Pina, Ileana
AU - Serafini, Aldo N.
AU - Hourani, Mukbil
PY - 1984/7
Y1 - 1984/7
N2 - A diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI) is usually established by the evaluation of clinical symptoms, electrocardiographic changes, and serum-enzyme levels, specifically creatine phosphokinase, subunit MB (CK-MB), by electrophoresis. A total of 215 patients were evaluated in this study. One hundred two of them were admitted to the coronary care unit and 113 to the emergency room, where they were screened for possible Mis. The radioimmunoassay (RIA) used in this study determines levels of the CK-MB isoenzyme by detecting the B monomer, which also has 100% cross-reactivity with the CK-BB isoenzyme. The intra-assay coefficients of variability (CVs) for 30 samples were 22% (x = 7.0 ng/ml) and 11% (x = 47.3 ng/ml), and the interassay CVs for 30 samples were 17% (x = 7.1 ng/ml) and 9.2% (x = 49.3 ng/ml). Of the 215 patients evaluated, 21 had myocardial infarction by the criteria in the study. The diagnostic sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were 100.0%, 92.8%, and 93.5% respectively. These values increased to 100.0%, 96.9%, and 97.2% when only coronary care unit patients were considered. The CK-MB RIA was found to be a reliable replacement for electrophoresis, but it was nonspecific in some patients.
AB - A diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI) is usually established by the evaluation of clinical symptoms, electrocardiographic changes, and serum-enzyme levels, specifically creatine phosphokinase, subunit MB (CK-MB), by electrophoresis. A total of 215 patients were evaluated in this study. One hundred two of them were admitted to the coronary care unit and 113 to the emergency room, where they were screened for possible Mis. The radioimmunoassay (RIA) used in this study determines levels of the CK-MB isoenzyme by detecting the B monomer, which also has 100% cross-reactivity with the CK-BB isoenzyme. The intra-assay coefficients of variability (CVs) for 30 samples were 22% (x = 7.0 ng/ml) and 11% (x = 47.3 ng/ml), and the interassay CVs for 30 samples were 17% (x = 7.1 ng/ml) and 9.2% (x = 49.3 ng/ml). Of the 215 patients evaluated, 21 had myocardial infarction by the criteria in the study. The diagnostic sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were 100.0%, 92.8%, and 93.5% respectively. These values increased to 100.0%, 96.9%, and 97.2% when only coronary care unit patients were considered. The CK-MB RIA was found to be a reliable replacement for electrophoresis, but it was nonspecific in some patients.
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U2 - 10.1097/00007611-198407000-00014
DO - 10.1097/00007611-198407000-00014
M3 - Article
C2 - 6740351
AN - SCOPUS:0021192009
SN - 0038-4348
VL - 77
SP - 843
EP - 847
JO - Southern Medical Journal
JF - Southern Medical Journal
IS - 7
ER -