[Characteristics of metabolism in patients with arteriosclerosis obliterans and arteritis].

Lipid, carbohydrate and protein metabolic parameters, such as triglycerides, total and alpha-cholesterol, total protein and albumin, urea nitrogen, creatinine, glucose and the activity of alanine and aspartate aminotransferases, alkaline phosphatase, total lactate dehydrogenase and creatine phosphokinase, were measured in 50 patients with obliterating atherosclerosis and 60 patients with arteritis. The latter showed more marked lipid metabolic disturbance, as compared to the former, as well as indirect signs of hepatic dysfunction.

[Energy losses during therapeutic drainage of the thoracic duct].

On the basis of examination of 50 patients in the process of external drainage of the thoracic lymphatic duct for detoxication the authors have established that energy losses are dependent on the day volume of the lymph obtained and its biochemical composition. The adequate parenteral nutrition results in decreased energy losses with lymph. Extracorporal lymphosorption is thought to be promising.