Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences on calcified tissues

ba0001pp284 | Muscle, physical activity and bone | ECTS2013

Raising CK: what it means according to different clinical landscape?

Juan Jose Scali , Visentini Susana , Berruezo Ramiro , Sevilla Daniel , Pacheco Gonzalo , Garcia Rodrigo

Introduction: The creatine kinase (CK) is a dimeric enzyme, involved in energetical metabolism. It is present in many tissues, but higher concentration in skeletal and cardiac muscle.Therefore, conditions that involve muscle tissue may increase this serum enzyme. Such enzyme elevation is usually observed in inflammatory myopathies and others autoimmune diseases.Sometimes some elevation in CK is not fully understood out off these co...