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What could cause an elevated creatine kinase test?
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Muscle injury: Creatinine kinase is released from injured or dead muscle cells, be those skeletal, cardiac of smooth muscle cells. Renal failure is also associtated with modestly elevated levels.
Answered 7/25/2014
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