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  • Title: Falsely negative laboratory diagnosis for myocardial infarction owing to the concurrent presence of macro creatine kinase and macro lactate dehydrogenase.
    Author: Pudek MR, Jacobson BE.
    Journal: Clin Chem; 1982 Dec; 28(12):2434-7. PubMed ID: 7139926.
    Abstract:
    Macro creatine kinase (CK, EC 2.7.3.2) and macro lactate dehydrogenase (LD, EC 1.1.1.27) were both present in the serum of a 70-year-old woman with myocardial infarction. This interfered with the interpretation of the CK and LD isoenzyme analyses. Gel filtration and immunoprecipitation showed that the macro CK consisted of IgG and CK and the macro LD of IgG and LD. The IgG in this patient bound both MB and BB isoenzymes of CK, resulting in a macro CK complex that co-migrated with CK-MM on cellulose acetate electrophoresis. This situation led to a falsely negative laboratory diagnosis for myocardial infarction.
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