Mitochondrial Creatine Kinase
A Poor Prognostic Sign
- C. Jack Bark, MD
Abstract
A serum creatine kinase (CK) isoenzyme band cathodic to MM, thought to represent mitochondrial CK, was found in eight patients in shock, six of whom died within 12 days. Severe tissue damage appears to be required to release this isoenzyme to detectable levels in the serum.
(JAMA 243:2058-2060, 1980)
Footnotes
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