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Muscle ATP and lactate and the release of myoglobin and carbanhydrase III in acute lower-limb ischaemia

1991; Elsevier BV; Volume: 5; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0950-821x(05)80172-0

1876-472X

Christer Ljungman, Ingvar Eriksson, Gunnar Ronquist, L. E. Roxin, Per Venge, Per J. Wistrand,

Vascular Procedures and Complications

Serum-myoglobin and carbanhydrase III (S-CAIII), a specific muscle enzyme, were measured on admission, during surgery and in the postoperative period in 23 patients with acute lower-limb ischaemia and in 21 patients with chronic limb ischaemia in order to evaluate these molecules as possible markers of the degree of clinical ischaemia. The muscle contents of ATP and lactate were determined in muscle biopsies from patients with acute ischaemia on admission. Unlike S-myoglobin and S-CAIII they discriminated between cases which required subsequent amputation from those which did not. Clinical signs of ischaemia were, however, of no value in this respect and there were no correlations between clinical signs or the duration of ischaemia and Smyoglobin or S-CAIII or the contents of ATP or lactate in muscle tissue. The levels of S-myoglobin and S-CAIII correlated well (r = 0.95, p <0.0001). In patients who subsequently required an amputation S-myoglobin increased ten-fold (i.e., from 24–48h postoperatively in acute arterial ischaemia and from 3 h postoperatively in patients with chronic limb ischaemia). In patients with a successful revascularisation S-myoglobin returned to normal levels. It is concluded that in this investigation S-myoglobin had no prognostic value on admission and that S-myoglobin analyses in the postoperative course may be useful for making clinical decisions concerning impending recirculation failures.