Comparison of Cardiac Biomarkers and Echocardiography in Diagnosing Myocarditis

BACKGROUND methods used to diagnose or rule out myocarditis is not useful in detecting cardiac myocyte injury in clinically cases. Endomyocardial biopsy and histopathological examination is not feasible in most government hospitals in . Sensitive parameters have yet to be found out. The study was conducted to find out whether diagnosis of myocarditis clinically suspected cases can be done by measurement of serum levels of cardiac troponinI (cTnI) and MB isoform of kinase (CK-MB). AND METHODS 19 patients with clinically suspected myocarditis were screened for CK-MB activity and cTnI. Echocardiography, ECG and IgM leptospirosis were also checked in these patients. was elevated in 10 out of 19 patients with clinically suspected myocarditis. CK-MB was elevated in 7 patients. of cTnI level in blood can be taken as an indicator of cardiac muscle cell injury in suspected cases of myocarditis.