Creatine Kinase Test Tube Color
Creatine kinase activity is useful in evaluating diseases of the heart skeletal muscle and brain.
Creatine kinase test tube color. Ck mm ck 3 ck mb ck 2 and ck bb ck 1 built from subunits designated m and b. It is mostly found in your skeletal muscles and heart with lesser amounts in the brain. Myocarditis mycardial infarction heart attack muscular dystrophy muscle trauma or excessive exercise. Ck is a marker for duchenne muscular dystrophy with elevations of 20 to 200 times normal.
Elevated in some patients with myxedema hypothyroidism malignant hyperthermia syndrome and muscular dystrophy. Color blocks below correspond to patient bedside visual reference used at sph following mistake proofing. The ck mb isoenzyme which has a molecular mass of approximately 87 kilodaltons accounts for 5 to 50 of total ck activity in myocardium. Blood test tube colors and meanings.
Red top tubes should be centrifuged and aliquoted within 2 hours of collection. Elevated results may be due to. Daily 24 hours turnaround time. This test measures the amount of creatine kinase ck in the blood.
612 813 6280 stp lab. Ck is a type of protein known as an enzyme. Test for acute myocardial infarct and for skeletal muscular damage. Tests and tube color phlebotomy.
If a container is stated as â yellowâ red tubes can be used if the request includes assays that can only be performed on tests requiring blood collected into a red tube. Skeletal muscles are the muscles attached to your skeleton. 1 ck is increased in female carriers of this x linked disease and in. What is a creatine kinase ck test.
Creatine kinase ck is an enzyme found primarily in muscle and brain tissue which exists as three dimeric isoenzymes. Serum gel tubes should be centrifuged within 2 hours of collection. Creatine kinase ck total test for myocardial infarction and skeletal muscle damage. Laboratory specimen tube type collection chart draw in the order shown on the chart from left to right order label at the bedside timely delivery to the lab mix all tubes gently 5 10 times by inverting immediately after collection.
For guidance on specimen collection or availability of other tests please bleep the duty biochemist on 1417.