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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 32, 857-859, Copyright © 1986 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Myoglobinemia after burn injury: relationship to creatine kinase activity in serum

J Guechot, N Lioret, L Cynober, C Letort, R Saizy and J Giboudeau

Myoglobin is released into the blood after burn injury. We measured it and other analytes in blood collected from 22 burn patients two to seven times during their recovery. There was a significant correlation between myoglobinemia and creatine kinase (CK) activity in serum (r = 0.764; p less than 0.001). In a group of 14 thermal-burn subjects a correlation was found between burn depth (clinically expressed as Unit Burn Surface) and both myoglobinemia (r = 0.825; p less than 0.01) and CK activity (r = 0.686; p less than 0.01). In eight thermal-burn patients who were recovering satisfactorily, myoglobin and CK activity measured on days 2, 4, 7, 10, and 13 after injury were significantly increased (p less than 0.05) on days 2, 4, and 7. Evidently myoglobinemia and CK activity are good biological markers of burn depth, and reflect muscle damage equally well.




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