Results of a Phase 1/2a gene therapy clinical trial in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) revealed a significant decrease in levels of serum creatine kinase, an enzyme biomarker ...

The occurrence of acute myocardial infarction (MI) during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery varies greatly, depending on the diagnostic criteria used. Although findings have suggested ...

Your doctor may recommend the creatine phosphokinase (CPK) test if there's a need to measure CPK enzyme levels in your blood. The cells in your body require this creatine kinase enzyme to generate ...

Patients experiencing muscle pain and weakness as a result of statin treatment may continue to suffer symptoms long after stopping the drugs, French researchers reported. Almost a third of patients ...

Although treatment with statins may cause muscle-related symptoms in 10 to 20% of patients, these symptoms usually resolve within weeks after the medication is stopped. In rare instances, however, the ...

Dennis Nice said he was still scratching his head Monday like a lot of other McMinnville (Oregon) parents. Still trying to find answers to the bizarre medical situation that unfolded last week in the ...

You ask a good question. These patients do present with elevated CK levels, but there has been no systematic investigation into the pathophysiology of this phenomenon. However, there is suggestive ...

Muscle-cell necrosis and infiltration of macrophages are characteristic features of muscle-biopsy specimens from patients with statin-associated autoimmune myopathy. Hematoxylin and eosin staining of ...

Rhabdomyolysis, a syndrome characterized by muscle necrosis with release of toxic intracellular muscle constituents, can be a potentially fatal side effect of medical therapy. Here I report a patient ...