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M T Johnston

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PubMed1988

Lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme-1 in serum for detection of peri-operative myocardial infarction after cardiac surgery.

We prospectively studied changes in serum lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme-1 (LD-1, EC 1.1.1.27) in 99 consecutive patients after either coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG, n = 61), isolated cardiac-valve replacement (n = 24), or the two procedures combined (n = 14); 86 of these had no clinical evidence of peri-operative myocardial infarction (MI). Blood was sampled immediately after surgery and at 6-h intervals for up to 42 h thereafter. LD-1 was isolated by using the LD M-subunit antiserum. Samples from the non-MI patients were used to establish the reference intervals for LD-1. By 24 h after surgery, mean serum LD-1 values were higher (P less than 0.001) in non-MI patients who underwent isolated valve replacement (222 +/- 74 U/L) or combined CABG and valve replacement (266 +/- 58 U/L) than in 50 non-MI patients who underwent CABG alone (134 +/- 42 U/L). Separate reference intervals were determined for CABG and other patients at each sampling time. By 24 h after operation, LD-1 exceeded these reference intervals in the 10 CABG and two combined-procedure patients in whom other evidence of MI was present. Measurement of LD-1 24 to 42 h after cardiac surgery appears to be a useful test for the diagnosis of perioperative MI.

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PubMed1975

Comparative efficacy of ampicillin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole in otitis media.

Seventy-nine children with acute otitis media were the subjects in a study designed to compare the effectiveness of ampicillin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole in this infection. They received either of these two agents according to a double-blind randomized procedure that also took the child's weight into account. No significant difference was found in the clinical outcome between the two treatment regimens. Undesirable side effects from TMP-SMX were notably few.

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