TY - JOUR TI - Perioperative creatine phosphokinase (CPK) and troponin I trends after elective hip surgery AU - Mouzopoulos, George AU - Kouvaris, Christos AU - Antonopoulos, Dimitrios AU - and Stamatakos, Mihalis AU - Tsembeli, Anastasia AU - Mouratis, George and AU - Tzurbakis, Mathaios AU - Safioleas, Mihalis JO - JOURNAL OF TRAUMA-INJURY INFECTION AND CRITICAL CARE PY - 2007 VL - 63 TODO - 2 SP - 388-393 PB - Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins SN - null TODO - 10.1097/01.ta.0000241236.54304.a3 TODO - creatine kinase; troponin I; hip; myocardial infarction; orthopedic surgery TODO - Background: Perioperative myocardial infarction (MI) is an important risk factor for cardiac morbidity and mortality after hip surgery. On the basis of the limitations of creatine kinase cardiac muscle isoenzyme (CK-MB) in the perioperative setting, and the high specificity of troponin I, we hypothesized that troponin I would be effective at detecting perioperative MI more frequently than CK-MB would be, after hip surgery. Methods: A prospective study of the serum levels of creatine phosphokinase (CPK), its isoenzyme CK-MB, and troponin 1, in 90 patients with risk factors for coronary artery disease, undergoing hip 14 surgery is reported. We measured these cardiac markers in the postoperative period for 5 days, after hemiarthroplasty, total hip arthroplasty, and hip intramedullary nailing. Results: We found increased levels of creatine phosphokinase and CK-MB, after all the types of operation, with maximum levels reached on the first postoperative day anti the levels were more pronounced after total hip arthroplasty. False-elevated CK-MB index > 6% without MI was evidenced in 43.3% of patients. Troponin I levels were elevated > 3.1 ng/mL only in the patients who suffered MI post-operatively. All the patients who suffered MI had both CK-MB index and troponin I levels elevated. Also, we found high correlation between maximum CK-MB levels and size of implants, which means that reaming and its heating effect may be responsible for false-elevated CK-MB levels, except direct muscle damage caused by surgical incision. Conclusion: CK-MB index and troponin I have the same sensitivity, but troponin I is more specific than CK-MB index in detecting MI after hip surgery. ER -