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Patients and Families

Ikuo Goto, MD, PhD; Henry A. Peters, MD; Hans H. Reese, MD

Arch Neurol. 1967;16(5):529-535.

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MANY investigations of serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase (SGOT),¹ glutamic pyruvic transaminase (GPT), aldolase,^2-6 and lactic dehydrogenase (LDH)⁶ have been reported in the diagnostic and genetic studies of progressive muscular dystrophy. Elevation of these enzymes, however, is not specific for progressive muscular dystrophy and may occur in other conditions^7-10 such as impaired liver function. Assay of creatine phosphokinase (CPK) has also been used for the diagnosis of progressive muscular dystrophy^10-14 and for the detection of carrier females in families with Duchenne-type pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy.^15-17

Since our CPK findings for the detection of carriers are at variance with several of the papers cited, we wish to present our data on CPK levels in muscular dystrophy families. Moreover, we will demonstrate that an elevated CPK is not specific for muscular dystrophy since modest CPK elevation is noted also in several neuromuscular disorders.

Methods

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Author Affiliations
Madison, Wis

From the Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wis. Dr. Goto is a fellow of the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America, Inc. His present address is Second Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 16, 1966; accepted Dec 3.

Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, N & R Hospital, 1954 E Washington Ave, Madison, Wis 53714 (Dr. Peters).

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