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Is there a differences between serum creatinine and ck-mb? i know they're both creatinine.

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Dr. Kevin Carr answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Creatine/creatinine: CK-MB (creatine kinase) is an enzyme that builds. Creatinine is a breakdown product of CREATINE. CK-MB adds phosphorus group to CREATINE (made by liver to provide energy) to make CREATINE PHOSPHATE (energy reserve molecule) which gets broken down at a constant rate to form CREATININE--a marker for kidney function. Meanwhile, CK-MB is marker for cardiac damage.

Answered 4/30/2016

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