Most healthcare providers now test for elevated cardiac troponin levels, another protein, instead of the CK-MB test when testing for signs of a heart attack. The CK test requires a simple blood ...

(See Eur Heart J 2000; 21:1502.) The new criteria are elevated troponin or CK-MB levels and either ischemic symptoms or electrocardiographic changes. These authors evaluated the clinical ...

Blood CK-MB may be derived from tissues other than cardiomyocytes and have lower specificity for cardiac tissue than troponins. However, in a recent study including 19 non-ST elevation OHCA ...

Cardiac enzymes ― also known as cardiac biomarkers ― include myoglobin, troponin and creatine kinase. Historically ... that exists as isoenzymes. The MB type is specific to myocardial cells ...