Cardiac Enzyme Studies: What Affects The Test
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What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Other diseases, such as muscular dystrophy, certain autoimmune diseases, and Reye's syndrome.
- Other heart conditions, such as myocarditis and some forms of cardiomyopathy.
- Emergency measures to treat heart problems, such as CPR, cardioversion, or defibrillation.
- Medicines, especially injections into muscles (IM injections).
- Cholesterol-lowering medicines (statins).
- Heavy alcohol use.
- Recent strenuous exercise.
- Kidney failure.
- Recent surgery or serious injury.
| Last updated: | September 13, 2007 |
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| Author: | Robin Parks, MS |
| Reviewed By: | E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine, Stephen Fort, MD, MRCP, FRCPC - Interventional Cardiology |
| Editors: | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Tracy Landauer |
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