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Your patient’s labs returns with an elevated creatinine phosphokinase. What action would you take ? What might be the etiology of this elevation?

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3 types of creatinine phosphokinase (cpk)

Cpk mm- increase in skeleton muscle damage

Cpk bb- increase in brain tissue injury

Cpk mb - increase in heart wall damage

So etiology of increase- cpk

Muscle damage due to stress, direct injury, rahabdomylisis

Heart wall damage- in myocardial infraction (mi)

Brain injury- in stroke

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