AIMS: This study compares serum markers of myocardial damage incurred during radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA). METHODS AND RESULTS: Blood was sampled from 34 patients with atrial flutter (n = 16), atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT; n = 13), and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW; n = 5) to measure creatine kinase MB subfraction (CK-MB), human heart-type fatty acid protein (h-FABP), and cardiac troponin T (cTnT) values at baseline and after RFCA. The controls comprised 12 patients without significant elevation of all myocardial markers during electrophysiological study (EPS) without RFCA. h-FABP values did not elevate significantly, whereas CK-MB and cTnT demonstrated significant change after RFCA (P < 0.001). Neither peak h-FABP nor CK-MB correlated with following RFCA parameters: delivery duration, number of RFCA discharges, and cumulative RFCA energy. In contrast, correlations were significant between mean peak values of cTnT and these RFCA parameters (all P < 0.05). The sensitivity (71.6%) and specificity (35.6%) of h-FABP were inferior to those of cTnT (93.3% and 89.8%, respectively). CONCLUSION: h-FABP is an insensitive and less specific marker of myocardial damage in RFCA much along the lines of CK-MB and when compared with the proven accuracy of cTnT.
AIMS: This study compares serum markers of myocardial damage incurred during radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA). METHODS AND RESULTS: Blood was sampled from 34 patients with atrial flutter (n = 16), atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT; n = 13), and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW; n = 5) to measure creatine kinase MB subfraction (CK-MB), human heart-type fatty acid protein (h-FABP), and cardiac troponin T (cTnT) values at baseline and after RFCA. The controls comprised 12 patients without significant elevation of all myocardial markers during electrophysiological study (EPS) without RFCA. h-FABP values did not elevate significantly, whereas CK-MB and cTnT demonstrated significant change after RFCA (P < 0.001). Neither peak h-FABP nor CK-MB correlated with following RFCA parameters: delivery duration, number of RFCA discharges, and cumulative RFCA energy. In contrast, correlations were significant between mean peak values of cTnT and these RFCA parameters (all P < 0.05). The sensitivity (71.6%) and specificity (35.6%) of h-FABP were inferior to those of cTnT (93.3% and 89.8%, respectively). CONCLUSION:h-FABP is an insensitive and less specific marker of myocardial damage in RFCA much along the lines of CK-MB and when compared with the proven accuracy of cTnT.
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