Cardiac enzyme

Troponin test as POC diagnostics z. B. in the doctor's office

As cardiac enzymes are commonly known in the Laborchemie certain proteins , mostly enzymes called the damage to the heart muscle , for example as part of a heart attack or acute coronary syndrome can view.

At the most specific and fastest-rising is the cardiac troponin . Myoglobin , creatine kinase (CK with the heart-specific sub-fraction CK-MB), glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (GOT) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) are less specific and increase more slowly .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Thieme Verlag: Checklist Medical Skills. Georg Thieme Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-131-70321-7 , p. 69.