What is a CTK muscle enzyme test and what do the results mean?
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It means there will be six more weeks of winter.
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Usually Liver enzymes but they can be found in out parts of your body.  They are high.  \nNormals are AST (0-36) ALT (0-37).\n\nI would talk to you doctor.  \nA thorough history, past medical history and physical is very important.\n\nDo you drink alcohol regularly or take any medications?\nYou will need to check Hepatitis C and B.\nUltrasound of the liver.\nThese are the basic test to run. \n\nIf these are all normal, there are other rarer disorders to check for.\n\nNot quite sure why you listed this under respiratory diseases.  There are respiratory diseases that can give you abnormalities with your liver enzymes.
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Unfortunatly there are not non-invasive tests that are 100% conclusive when it comes to ishchemic heart disease.  Even the results from a heart-cath are subjective, although generally this test considered to be the most conclusive procedure for determining the extent of ishchmic heart disease.\n\nThere are two simialar tests which are generally accepted to be quite reliable in looking for coronary blockages.  1st, there is a nuclear stress test which would be my personal choice if I were to be tested for heart disease.  It involves being injected with a mildly radio-active isotope and taking two sets of pictures of your heart.  One set of the pics is while you are at rest, and the other is after you have stressed your heart while briefly getting on a treadmill to increase the heart rate and blood flow.  In the event you are unable to get on a treadmill, there is a drug which is administered to artificially increase the heart rate and blood flow.  These two sets of pictures give the docs. some good diagnostic info. to work with.  The test also indicates your hearts ejection fraction, a very important number that if below normal ranges is a strong indicator of heart disease.  Your ejection fraction indicates what percentage of blood from your heart is pumped with each beat, with numbers under 50% indicating that there may very well be a blockage.  The other test is a high speed CT scan, commonly called a cat scan, looking for calcium deposits in your arteries.  The CT scan is less expensive and time consuming than the nuclear scan, but provides less data.  In the event that either of these tests were to indicate a blockage of significance, the next step would be to have a heart catherization to see if stents, angioplasty, or a bypass would be advisable.  If your looking for a non-invasive test for ischemic heart disease, I highly recommend that you pursue having a nuclear stress test.   Feel free to email me if you would like further info.  Best of luck to you.
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Aspirin shows up if they test for it. If you have a muscle relaxer in your system, you had better have a prescription and be prepared to answer the questions as to why you have it. Bring all your prescription medications with you[to the test] and tell them when you took the last dose. Luckily, if you don't pass, they can't tell your potential employer what they found, just that it was positve. Or, they can say it was postive but that you have a prescrip. Your employer can then ask if your meds will hinder your performance but not what it is you are taking. Good luck!
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With a cholesterol reading that high you need to go with your Doctor's advice. Just be sure you get regular readings on you liver enzymes. There is a conditon called rhabdomyolysis that occurs with statin use. It is very serious but also very rare. Let your Doctor know if you start having  muscle pain and weakness.
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it actually depends on which specific leg action you want to test.among PTs,the test for muscle strength is called the MMT (manual muscle testing) usually done with the break test.\nmuscle strength ranges from 0-5 and we usually start the test at 3.\nfor example if you want to test the strength of your leg extensors,let the subject sit over the edge of a plinth and with the knees flexed to 90 degrees ask him to extend it without resistance first,then from there we proceed depending on the results.
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http://www.webmd.com/hw/lab_tests/hw1768.asp
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Treadmill stress electrocardiography is employed widely to detect underlying cardiovascular disease in asymptomatic persons. To determine the frequency and significance of an abnormal S-T segment response to exercise in young athletes with increased left ventricular (LV) mass induced by physical conditioning, 75 male isometrically trained athletes without evidence of heart disease (mean age 21 years) and 48 nonathletic young normal subjects were studied by M-mode echocardiography and exercise electrocardiography. Ventricular septal and posterior free wall thicknesses and calculated LV mass were significantly greater in athletes than in control subjects. An abnormal S-T segment response to exercise was present in 7 (9%) of the 75 athletes, all of whom had a LV mass greater than 275 g and in 5 the LV mass was above the 95th percentile of that of the control subjects. An abnormal treadmill exercise test result also was present in 3 (6%) of 48 control subjects. Seven of the 10 subjects with abnormal exercise test results had radionuclide angiograms at rest and with exercise, each of which was normal. It is concluded, therefore, that (1) abnormal exercise test results occur commonly in both athletes and non-athletes; (2) almost 10% of isometrically trained athletes have "false-positive" exercise electrocardiograms, suggesting that this test has major limitations in screening for underlying cardiovascular disease in athletes; and (3) in athletes, a relation was present between "physiologically" increased LV mass and false-positive exercise test results.
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I think that you should at least do some investigations to find out why your ALT is elevated. Do you know what your bilirubin, GGT, and alkaline phosphatase levels were?
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Philippe Verbiest, the lawyer for cycling's world governing body, confirmed Tuesday that a carbon isotope ratio test, which detects a subtle chemical difference between the natural and synthetic versions of testosterone, was done. The New York Times has reported the test detected the man-made hormone, but Verbiest refused to give any details of the result. \n\nThe test focuses on carbon atoms in testosterone molecules. These atoms come in different types, called isotopes. The ratio of one particular isotope to another isotope is different in synthetic versus natural testosterone. The test detects that difference. \n\nWhen the lab procedure is performed correctly it is very accurate, said Dr. Don Catlin, the director of the UCLA Olympic doping lab. He helped develop the test. Dr. Gary Wadler, an internist and author with expertise in the area of drug use by athletes, said he's not aware of anything other than synthetic testosterone that will produce a positive test result. \n\nWhen athletes take synthetic testosterone to boost performance, it typically helps them get stronger, recover faster from workouts, prevent tissue breakdown and increase their assertiveness, said Wadler, a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency who stressed he was not speaking for that group. \nVR
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CPK  is creatine phosphokinase, an enzyme found in heart, muscle, and brain tissue. An elevation in CPK  most often alerts physicians to order an MB fraction, the one specific for cardiac (heart). Usually if the MB fraction is normal you can rule out cardiac damage. Therefore, it is very likely that  your son had  high CPK levels due to the weight lifting because of severe muscle strain
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The liver contains many enzymes which are used to detoxify chemicals and useless compounds that are in to human body.  The names are not important, but that they are known is good enough for you to understand.\nIf your blood is tested and excessive amounts of any of these enzymes are found it usually means that the liver is damaged or is producing more of these enzymes that normal.\nAlcohol, hydrocarbons, drugs (including Tylenol) and other compounds can do this.  There are also diseases, usually called Hepatitis (but there are others) that can damage the liver tissue and allow the enzymes to be released.
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Specifically, CPK is creatinine kinase, and it is one of two cardiac enzymes a doctor will check if he/she suspects a heart attack.  However, the CPK level can be elevated for other reasons, such as mucle tissue damage in other parts of the body.
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Look just below the table; it should have a key there, saying what % of positivity each symbol refers to.  I do not have a Bergey's here at home; we have them in the lab.\n\nAFAICR, each symbol refers to a % of that genus (or species??) which is positive for each biochemical test.  For example, D means most ... something like 90% or more, while d means a minority are positive, say 10% or less.  It is hard to remember, here at home.\n\nAs I said, the book tells you (AFAICR).
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Chkdsk also checks file intergrity.  It can determine cross-linked files or file system corruption.  \n\nThis basically means that it checks the file against the Allocation table to make sure that everything is as it should be and that no part of an allocated filed is unaccounted for or showing incorrect entries.\n\nYou need to change to the C:&#92;windows &#92;system32 directory to run the DOS utilities
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You want to screen samples for presence of the gene or presence of the enzyme?  Nowadays we sequence the gene based on genomic information.  Or we do western blots using antibodies against the enzyme.  In days of yore we would perform enzymatic assays, looking at activity.  You could do all of these, plus many other assays.
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You must mean "C reactive protein"...which is generally measured to see if you have any acute inflammatory reaction.  It's a non-specific test that basically means you are having an inflammatory response in your body to something.  Inflammation can occur with many different disease states such as autoimmune type diseases like lupus or other inflammatory diseases like arthritis or even pneumonia.