[Lipid metabolism in patients with burn disease during nasogastral tube hyperalimentation].

A study was made of lipid metabolism in burn disease patients who received prolonged nasogastral feeding. The main alterations were discovered in phospholipid fractions of blood plasma and red blood cell membranes. In patients receiving nasogastral feeding, the alterations returned to normal more rapidly than in those who did not receive such a feeding.

[Protein uptake in patients with burns receiving dosed high-calorie tube feeding].

Protein assimilation was studied by means of radionuclide diagnosis methods, using 131I-albumin, in 10 patients with grave burns, fed a high-caloric dosed diet via a gastric tube (HCDGT). Simultaneously, the intestinal absorption was studied by the alpha-xylose test, and some protein metabolism parameters were investigated. The level of protein assimilation in burned patients was found to fluctuate within a wide range and to be most often reduced.

[Determination of double bonds in the lipid fraction of blood plasma in burn patients using the ADS-4M apparatus].

An ADS-4M analyser was employed to study the diagnostic potentialities of the method for determination of double bonds (DB) in lipids of the burnt's blood as a rapid method for revealing alterations in unsaturated fatty acids (USFA). The method was tried in 25 patients with varying gravity of burn injury and in 15 healthy subjects with a purpose of establishing the norm. It was discovered that in patients with burn, the number of DB differed from normal depending on the disease gravity.