Population
58 patients undergoing thoracic, cardiac, and abdominal operations
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
5 days postoperatively
Authors
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Postoperative SCPK patterns may aid differentiation of perioperative MI from surgical trauma; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Establishing the expected postoperative trajectory of serum creatine phosphokinase helps differentiate normal surgical tissue trauma from perioperative acute myocardial infarction.
Sewell H. Dixon (1971) studied this question.