[Essential fatty acid allowance in patients with malabsorption syndrome].

Absorption and assimilation of some of fatty acids and fatty acid composition of platelet lipids and red cell stroma were studied in 75 patients suffering from the malabsorption syndrome. The patients were distributed in 4 groups in terms of the disease severity. The patients subjected to an extensive resection of the small intestine and those with stage III enterocolitis manifested malabsorption, because of significant steatorrhea, of food polyunsaturated fatty acids, particularly of linoleic acid.

[Tissue enzymatic study in the perfusate of cadaveric kidneys for assessing their functional state].

A correlation was found between the level of the tissue enzyme activity in cadaveric kidneys perfusates and the degree of their functional adequacy in the early posttransplantation period. According to the data obtained the level of the activity of leucin aminopeptidase and gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase in the perfusates may be of importance for prognostication of a delayed function of the kidneys after transplantation. An elevated level of activity, in addition to leucin adminopeptidase and gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase, lactatedehydrogenase, aspartataminotransferase, muramidase, acid and alkali phosphatases suggests the transplanted kidney to be not functioning.