Role of Biochemical Markers in Detection of Myocardial Infarction
Fareeha Cheema, Zahid Mahmood, Nasir Iqbal, Hassan Jamil, Saima Rubab Khan, Anas Khalil
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ABSTRACT
Introduction:
Acute myocardial
infarction causes significant mortality and morbidity. Timely conclusion
permits clinicians to risk stratify their patients and select suitable
treatment. Biomarkers have been utilized to help with timely decision, whereas
an expanding number of novel markers have been recognized to predict result
taking after an acute myocardial infarction or acute coronary disorder.
This may encourage tailoring of appropriate treatment to high-risk
patients. This survey focuses on an assortment of promising biomarkers which
give symptomatic and prognostic data.
Objective: To compare the early demonstrative efficiency
of the cardiac troponin I (cTn-I) level with that of the cardiac troponin T
(cTn-T) level, as well as the creatine kinase (CK), CK-MB, and myoglobin
levels, for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in patients without an initially
diagnostic ECG presenting to the Emergency department within 24 hours of the
onset of their symptoms.
Material and
Methods
Study
design: Prospective
Observational Cohort
Settings: Punjab Institute of Cardiology
Duration: Six months i.e. 1st January 2020
to 30th June 2020
Data
Collection procedure: A planned,
observational, cohort study was performed including chest pain patients
admitted to territory care hospital. Members were sequential consenting through
Emergency department with chest pain and age more than 30 years. Exclusion
included having symptoms >24 hours,
failure to total information collection, receipt of CPR, and ST-segment
elevation on the starting ECG. Estimations included levels of Trop-I, Trop- T,
CK, CK-MB, and myoglobin at the time of introduction and 1, 2, 6, and 12-24
hours after presentation as well as showing ECG and clinical follow-up. The
collected data was analyzed by using SPSS version 23.
Results: 140
included for study out of the 200 patients, 21 (14%)
were analyzed as having acute myocardial infarction after diagnostic ECG
testing. The sensitivities of all 5 biochemical markers for acute myocardial
infarction were poor at the time of emergency department induction. The
sensitivity of Trop-T was essentially superior to that of Trop-I over the
starting 2 hours (3.2-33.1), but both markers' sensitivities were low (<60%)
during this time outline. The Trop-I was significantly more particular for
acute myocardial infarction than was the Trop-T, but not essentially better
than CK-MB or myoglobin. Likelihood proportion analysis appeared that the
biochemical markers with the most elevated positive ratios for acute myocardial
infarction amid the primary 2 hours taking after emergency department admission
were myoglobin and CK-MB. From 6 through 24 hours, the positive probability proportions
for Trop I, CK-MB, and myoglobin were predominant to those of CK and Trop-T.
Conclusion: Trop-I, CK-MB, and myoglobin are essentially more particular for acute
myocardial infarction than are CK and Trop-T. Myoglobin is the biochemical
marker having the most elevated combination of sensitivity, specificity, and
negative predictive value for acute myocardial infarction inside 2 hours of
emergency department induction. Not one or the other Trop-I nor Trop-T offers
significant advantages over myoglobin and CK-MB within the early less than 2
hours starting screening for acute myocardial infarction. The cardiac troponins
are of advantage in recognizing acute myocardial infarction greater than 6
hours after presentation.
Key words: Myocardial Infarction, CKMB, Trop t, Trop I, Myoglobin