ISCHEMIA MODIFIED ALBUMIN : A NOVEL MARKER FOR ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME

Journal Title: Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry - Year 2006, Vol 21, Issue 1

Abstract

Early identification of patients with acute myocardial infarction is of prime importance due to the associated very high mortality. Only 22% of the patients presenting at emergency cardiology care with chest pain have coronary disease. A number of biochemical tests like CKMB and Troponin- T/I have been introduced for early detection of the coronary syndrome (ACS). Ischemia modified albumin (IMA) has been recently introduced as a marker of myocardial ischemia. We estimated serum IMA in four sequential samples from 25 patients admitted to ICCU. Twenty five healthy volunteers formed the control group from which the normal range was derived. IMA was significantly raised in ischemia patients than in controls as well as compared to the patients who did not have cardiac ischemia. IMA demonstrated good discrimination between the ischemic and the nonischemic patients with an Odds Ratio of 16.9 (6.29 - 46.87) than CKMB which showed an Odds Ratio of 2.07 (1.18 - 6.08). Sensitivity and specificity of IMA for the detection of ACS was 78.0% and 82.7% compared to 58.0% and 60.0%, respectively for the CK-MB assay. The area under the ROC curve of IMA for ischemic v/s non-ischemic patients was 0.834. IMA appears to be developing into a new and very potent marker of cardiac ischemia.

Authors and Affiliations

Chawla R. , Navendu Goyal, *Rajneesh Calton and Shweta Goyal

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Chawla R. , Navendu Goyal, *Rajneesh Calton and Shweta Goyal (2006). ISCHEMIA MODIFIED ALBUMIN : A NOVEL MARKER FOR ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME. Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry, 21(1), 77-82. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-96558