Mortality risk conferred by small elevations of creatine kinase-MB isoenzyme after percutaneous coronary intervention

• Published in: Journal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 42; no. 8; pp. 1406 - 1411
• Main Authors: Ioannidis, John P.A, Karvouni, Evangelia, Katritsis, Demosthenes G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 15.10.2003; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Angioplasty; Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; Atherectomy; Cardiology; Confidence intervals; Coronary Disease - mortality; Coronary Disease - therapy; Creatine Kinase - blood; Creatine Kinase, MB Form; Enzymes; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Ischemia; Isoenzymes - blood; Meta-analysis; Mortality; Ratios; Risk Assessment; Stents; Studies; Time Factors; EPIC; IMPACT-II; CI; PCI; PTCA; CK-MB; EPILOG
• ISSN: 0735-1097; 1558-3597
• DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(03)01044-1

The aim of this study was to assess whether small creatine kinase-MB isoenzyme (CK-MB) elevations after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) affect the subsequent mortality risk. Several studies have evaluated the relationship of CK-MB levels after PCI with the subsequent risk of death. While there is consensus that elevations exceeding 5 times the upper limit of normal increase mortality significantly, there is uncertainty about the exact clinical impact of smaller CK-MB elevations. We performed a meta-analysis of seven studies with CK-MB measurements and survival outcomes on 23,230 subjects who underwent PCI. Data were combined with random effects models. Mean follow-up was 6 to 34 months per study. By random effects, 19% (95% confidence interval [CI], 16% to 23%) had one- to five-fold CK-MB elevations, while only 6% (95% CI, 5% to 9%) had >5-fold elevations. Compared with subjects with normal CK-MB, there was a dose-response relationship with relative risks for death being 1.5 (95% CI, 1.2 to 1.8, no between-study heterogeneity) with one- to three-fold CK-MB elevations, 1.8 (95% CI, 1.4 to 2.4, no between-study heterogeneity) with three- to five-fold CK-MB elevations, and 3.1 (95% CI, 2.3 to 4.2, borderline between-study heterogeneity) with over five-fold CK-MB elevations (p < 0.001 for all). Any increase in CK-MB after PCI is associated with a small, but statistically and clinically significant, increase in the subsequent risk of death.