To Study the Levels of Potassium and Creatinine in Patients of Suspected Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)

Abstract

Background: Acute myocardial infarction is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality across the world. Serum Potassium and creatinine levels changes in cardiac chest pain and non-cardiac chest pain but have not been studied extensively and there is a paucity of information in the literature in this regard. Scanty information is available in the literature about the prognostic value of serum Potassium and Creatinine in Chest pain. Hence this study was undertaken to estimate the concentrations of serum potassium and creatinine in AMI patients. Materials and Methods: A total of 200 patients were enrolled from the Cardiac OPD of Dhiraj Hospital. 100 were cases and 100 were controls. The levels of creatinine were measured by EM-200 at Dhiraj Hospital and levels of Potassium were measured at Nulyte analyzer. Results: The mean levels of potassium and creatinine were high in cases (4.27 ± 0.56 and 0.99 ± 0.53) in comparison with respective control (4.30 ± 0.92 and 0.87 ± 0.23) and there was a significant difference between levels of potassium and serum creatinine (P<0.001). Conclusion: The levels of potassium could be useful for prediction of mortality of myocardial infarction.