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[Creatine phosphokinase as a predictor of acute destructive cholecystitis]
A A Yashnov1, S L Lobanov1, O G Konovalova1
1Chita State Medical Academy, Chita, Russia.
Objective:
To analyze creatine phosphokinase as a predictor of destructive cholecystitis.
Material And Methods:
We analyzed 105 patients with various clinical variants of acute calculous cholecystitis (catarrhal, phlegmonous, gangrenous), and comparable age, gender and comorbidities. The study included patients with gallstone disease and gallbladder inflammation aged 30-7 years who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy, open cholecystectomy, cholecystectomy through mini-laparotomy. We excluded patients with gallstone disease complicated by mechanical jaundice aged under 30 years and over 70 years old. Control group consisted of 35 patients with exacerbation of chronic calculous cholecystitis. Creatinine phosphokinase (CPK) was analyzed at admission by standard kinetic colorimetric method in all patients with suspected acute cholecystitis. Statistical analysis of data was carried out using the SPSS Statistics 7.0 software in compliance with the principles of statistical analysis adopted for research in biology and medicine.
Results:
CPK level was 257.7±27.9 U/L (p<0.05) in patients with acute calculous cholecystitis that is 3.5 times higher than in the control group. We found an increase of concentration of this enzyme depending on severity of gallbladder wall destruction.
Conclusion:
Analysis of serum creatine phosphokinase can be included in the algorithm of preoperative examination to study the prospects of this approach for predicting severity of acute cholecystitis.
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