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6475836

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-10-25
pubmed:abstractText
The authors measured the activities of CK, LDH, and their isoenzymes in pericardial fluid to determine their usefulness in evaluating acute myocardial injury. Their prospective study reveals that these enzymes significantly are elevated in cardiac deaths in contrast to fatalities from noncardiac causes. Also, a group of healthy individuals who were victims of violent deaths and died from extracardiac injuries had enzyme elevations greater than those found in acute cardiac deaths, suggesting catecholamine-mediated myocardial injury (stress cardiomyopathy) as part of the physiologic response to trauma. Measurements of cardiac enzymes in pericardial fluid may prove useful in establishing the postmortem diagnosis of acute myocardial injury in instances when such injury is suspected but cannot be established by ordinary histologic methods. Studies such as this may help in defining the participation of myocardial injury as one of the lethal mechanisms in various causes of death.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0002-9173
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
82
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
411-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
Postmortem diagnosis of myocardial disease by enzyme analysis of pericardial fluid.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article