title: [Evaluation of serum myoglobin level in patients with muscular disorder and renal failure].
abstract: Since myoglobin is a low molecular weight proteins and most serum myoglobin is usually excreted into the urine, but serum myoglobin is elevated in patients with renal failure. This elevation hampers diagnosis of muscular damage in patients with renal failure. We studied the influence of renal function on serum myoglobin level and estimated corrected myoglobin levels. We first examined the correlation of serum myoglobin level with levels of serum creatinine and serum beta 2 microglobulin in patients without muscular damage. Creatinine level was more highly correlated with serum myoglobin level than with beta 2 microglobulin level. Measured myoglobin level was corrected using the regression line obtained from the correlation between levels of myoglobin and creatinine, and the corrected myoglobin levels thus obtained were within a reasonable range. The influence of renal failure was compensated for by this correction. We then measured myoglobin level and creatine kinase activity in patients with various heart muscle or skeletal muscle diseases, with or without renal failure, and compared measured myoglobin levels with the corrected ones. In these patients, myoglobin level changed faster than such muscle enzymes as creatine kinase. Thereafter, we found that the stage and degree of muscular damage could be estimated from both corrected myoglobin level and creatine kinase activity, even in patients with renal failure. In conclusion, corrected serum myoglobin level might be a useful diagnostic marker of muscle damage even in patients with renal failure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maekawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maekawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kanno
mesh_terms: D003402:Creatine Kinase / Q000097:blood; D003404:Creatinine / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications*; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000097:blood* / Q000150:complications; D009211:Myoglobin / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D009211:Myoglobin; D003404:Creatinine; D003402:Creatine Kinase