Increase in serum cardiac myosin light chain I associated with elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in patients with ischemic heart disease
Abstract:Changes in serum myosin light chain I (MLCI) due to elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) were studied after PTCA (0, 8 and 48 hours) in 57 patients with old myocardial infarction (MI group) and 20 patients with angina pectoris (AP group). The AP group showed no increase after PTCA. In contrast, in the MI group there were 16 patients in whom MLCI at 48 hours was increased by 1.0 ng/ml or more (MI1 group) and another group of 41 patients who showed no increase in MLCI (MI2 group). The M… Show more
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