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Neonatal Ck Value And Early Detection Of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Yaw-Wei Wei, Chue-Fun Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Early detection of patients or carrier of Duchenne muscular dystrophy with elevated CK is well documented in the literature. The purpose of this study is to find out normal CK value of cord blood during paripurm, in order to provide a diagnostic reference of DMD. Totally 327 newborn infants were evaluated for the cord blood CK value during paripurm. It revealed the mean CK value was 117.９±61.1IU／(ranged from 31.4to 455IU/1)the mean cord blood CK value of the male newborn was 125.1±69.8IU/1 and that of the female was 110.9±52.9IU/1. It showed a significant sex difference (P＜0.05). There was no definite CK …