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Sylvén, C. et al.

Key enzymes of myocardial energy metabolism in papillary muscle of patients with mitral valve disease--relation to left ventricular function.

Metabolic adaptations were studied in papillary muscle from 18 patients undergoing open-heart surgery for mitral valve disease. Analyses were made of myoglobin (MG), the enzymes lactate dehydrogenase (LD) with its isoenzymes, glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), phosphofructokinase ( PFK), citrate synthase (CS) and creatine kinase (CK) with its isoenzymes MB (CK-MB) and mitochondrial CK (CK-MIT). Myocardial function was assessed with left ventricular angiography. Positive and significant correlations were found between enzymes of oxidative metabolism, i.e. CS on the one hand and MG (r = 0.76), LD1 (r = 0.68), CK-MIT (r = 0.86) and CK-MB (r = 0.65) on the other. Indicators of glycolysis--PFK, GAPDH and LD3--varied independently of CS. LD3% was directly related to GAPDH (r = 0.66). In a sub-group of 12 patients with isolated mitral regurgitation due to myxomatous valve degeneration, LD3% rose (r = 0.72) with increasing myocardial derangement which, however, showed no relationship with any other marker. Thus the capacities of oxidative and glycolytic pathways did not co-vary. Volume load appeared not to affect oxidative capacity, while the anaerobic fraction of glycolysis was increased.[1]

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Key enzymes of myocardial energy metabolism in papillary muscle of patients with mitral valve disease--relation to left ventricular function. Sylvén, C., Jansson, E., Szamosi, A., Böök, K. Scandinavian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. (1989) [Pubmed]

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