[C-reactive protein and defect in lipid transport blood system in patients with rheumatoid arthritis].

In 88 patients with rheumatoid arthritis lipid-protein spectrum of the blood serum were determined biochemically and by means of nefelometric technique, C-reactive protein (CRP) was measured with enzyme immunoassay. An increase in CRP concentration was associated with lowering of apoA1 and HDL FL, triglycerides. Thus, elevation of CRP in RA reflects not only activity of inflammation but also defects in serum lipid-transport system by the atherogenic type.

[The blood rheological properties in patients with amputation stumps and concomitant ischemic heart disease].

Blood rheology was compared in two groups of patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD). In group 1 patients low limbs were amputated. It is in them that rheological properties of blood were changed to the most extent.

[The characteristics of the blood lipid transport system in the disabled with lost lower extremities].

A comparative analysis of major blood lipoprotein values in 108 males aged 16-65 years with lower limbs amputations has shown a higher level of triglycerides (TG) and a reduced level of high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL C) in them than in control males with normal limbs. In the subgroup of patients who had undergone the amputation as a result of obliterative arterial disease, the TG level was the highest while HDL C the lowest; moreover, these values appeared to be the same as in the age-matched subgroup of patients with manifestations of atherosclerosis. In the subgroup of older men with posttraumatic lower limb amputations (aged 40-59 years) the TG and HDL C levels did not differ from the corresponding parameters in age-matched subgroup of healthy subjects, whereas young amputees (17-39 years) had the increased blood TG concentration and reduced level of HDL C and apolipoprotein AI.