In 2014, the American Heart Association and ACC concluded that CK-MB offered no diagnostic value and should be stopped, since the test adds $416 million annually to healthcare costs.

The investigators' report on the test, published online today in JAMA Internal Medicine, points to a previous statement from the American College of Cardiology and five peer-reviewed studies ...

A negative CK-MB test result in a patient with chest pain should not be interpreted as support for discharge. -- Kristi L. Koenig, MD, FACEP ...

The findings should motivate physicians to test CK-MB levels in their post-PCI patients to better gauge the intensity of secondary-prevention efforts, investigators say.

Because the test for troponin can detect even small amounts of heart muscle damage, patients previously testing positive for troponin but negative for CK-MB were not always treated as being at ...

Which Tests Should be Done For Heart Disease? In today's changing lifestyle, heart disease has emerged as a serious problem, ...

Doctors at Bhatia Hospital once again performed the CK-MB test – not more than six hours since the first test was conducted. Once again, the results were surprising – her CK-MB levels were ...

Cardiac markers are measured to evaluate heart function. The types of cardiac markers are troponin, creatine kinase, myobloboin, lactate dehydrogenase and CRP.

We selected 10 representative tests considered antiquated by most experts in the clinical laboratory medicine field: creatine kinase-MB, myoglobin, serum folate and red blood cell folate, amylase ...