BACKGROUND Aluminum phosphide (AlP) is a very effective indoor and outdoor pesticide. We investigated the effects of N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) on the survival time, hemodynamics, and cardiac biochemical parameters at various time intervals in some cases of AlP poisoning. METHODS This research was a case-control study to evaluate 63 AlP poisoned patients during 2010-2012. Patients with cardiovas...

Determination of serum creatine phos~hokinase (CPK; EC 2.7.3.2.) is important ill laboratory diagnosis of myocardial infarction (M') and skeletal muscle disorders (7). Two recent reports suggest that administration of corticosteroids decreases serum CPK activity (1.5). If patients with MI and myopathies are given. corticosteroids as some of them are the corticostEroids may ~revent the expected ...

Since the initial report on the clinical value of serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase (SGOT) determinations in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction (LaDue, Wroblewski, and Karmen, 1954), a considerable amount of work has been done on the blood levels of other enzymes liberated from necrosed heart cells. Because of lack of specificity and difficulty of estimation, very few other enzyme esti...

Aim. To evaluate the information value of a complex clinical and biochemical parameters myocardial damage in predicting development transmural according to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) patients with acute infarction (AMI). Material methods. The study included admitted emergency cardiology department coronary syndrome. All underwent invasive angiography, laboratory tests, dynamic determinati...

Myocardial infarct extension, defined as reelevation or reappearance of creatine phosphokinase-MB (CK-MB) 48 hours after the onset of symptoms, was evaluated prospectively in 56 consecutive patients with acute myocardial infarction. Myocardial infarct extension occurred in eight patients (14%). The sensitivity, specificity and predictive accuracy in the diagnosis of myocardial infarct extension...

myocardial dysfunction is a major complication in cardiac surgery that needs inotropic support. this study evaluates the effect of milrinone on patients with low ventricular ejection fraction undergoing off- pump coronary artery bypass graft (opcab). the present study is designed to evaluate the effect of milrinone on myocardial dysfunction. eighty patients with low ventricular ejection fractio...

We wanted to determine the optimal method for displaying data for the clinical evaluation of patients with possible acute myocardial infarction. Our primary question was, are the time changes (slopes) of the enzyme tests better predictors of disease than the discrimination values, i.e., the cut-off points? We studied 152 patients with and 114 without a diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction i...

conclusions it may be concluded that combination of losartan with higher dose of va decreases ischemic markers and lipid peroxidation and augments endogenous antioxidant and hence, protects myocardium against i/r-induced oxidative stress injuries. results there was a more significant decrease in the levels of ldh, cpk, ck-mb, and mda as well as increase in the levels of sod, cat and gpx in grou...