title: [The MB Iso-enzyme of creatine phosphokinase in myocardial infarction (author's transl)].
abstract: CPK and its MB iso-enzymatic fraction were measured in 240 patients, 180 of whom suffered from myocardial infarction. MB iso-enzyme was expressed as a percentage of total CPK and a minimum figure of 4 per cent of MB isoenzyme was taken as indicative of a diagnosis of myocardial infarction. In the 180 patients with an infarction, the average MB level as a percentage of total CPK was 12.1 +/- 5.4 per cent. Five patients with a proven infarct had an MB iso-enzyme level of less than 4 per cent. Amongst the 60 patients without a myocardial infarction who were included in view of a pathological level of CPK, the average maximum level of MB was 1 +/- 2.5 per cent. Five of these 60 patients (false positives: 8.3%) had an MB iso-enzyme level of greater than 4 per cent. It is concluded that the estimation of MB iso-enzyme of CPK using a chromatographic technic is a highly valuable laboratory method for confirming or eliminating a diagnosis of myocardial infarction in the numerous clinical circumstances when such a diagnosis is difficult or even impossible on the basis of standard data.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004796:Clinical Enzyme Tests; D003402:Creatine Kinase / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D003402:Creatine Kinase
vernacular_title: L'iso-enzyme MB de la créatine phosphokinase dans l'infarctus du myocarde.