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isolated elevated serum creatine phosphokinase levels

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An inherited metabolic disorder characterized by elevated serum creatine kinase levels in the absence of muscle weakness or other symptoms that has_material_basis_in in some cases in heterozygous mutation in the CAV3 gene on chromosome 3p25.3.

Signs and symptoms

  • Abnormal muscle fiber morphology
  • Elevated circulating creatine kinase activity
  • Increased muscle fatiguability
  • Myopathy
  • Muscle spasm
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Fatigue
  • Inflammatory myopathy
  • Mitochondrial myopathy
  • Exercise-induced muscle cramps

Also known as: elevated serum CPK; idiopathic hyperCKemia; isolated hyperCKemia