Is CK-MB isoenzyme useful for diagnosis of cardiac involvement in icteric leptospirosis?

In the absence of heart failure or cardiogenic shock, cardiac involvement diagnosis in icteric leptospirosis is possible on the basis of abnormal electrocardiograms. As metabolic and electrolytic disorders are frequently seen during acute leptospirosis infection, they may be responsible for some electrocardiograms changes. We conducted a study to assess if creatine phosphokinase isoenzyme determinations are useful in selecting patients with a high cardiac involvement suspicion. Sixty-nine patients were studied prospectively. Ten patients out of 16 with cardiac involvement and 25 without had high CK-MB levels (p>0.05), although mean values of abnormal CK-MB levels were higher in the group with cardiac involvement (p<0.05). Our analysis indicates that serum CK-MB determination does not provide a specific indicator of myocardial involvement in the course of icteric leptospirosis.

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Main Authors:	Machado,Elizabeth Stankiewicz, Feres,José Guilherme de Faria, Feijó,Luis Augusto, Andrade,Jarbas, Nogueira,Susie Andries
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo 1995
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46651995000500013
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