[Analysis of the amount of plasma cholesterol and triglycerides in patients with coronary heart disease].

Fluorescence technique was used to study the time course of changes in the amount of blood cholesterol and triglycerides (C+TG) in 43 patients with Q- and non-Q-wave myocardial infarction (MI) on days 1, 2, 3, and 10 of the disease, in 82 patients with chronic coronary heart disease (CHD), and in 43 apparently healthy donors. Within the first 3 days of the disease, the level of C+TG in the patients with acute MI (AMI) was significantly lower than that in the patients with chronic CHD and in the donors. By day 10 of their hospital stay, the level of lipids in patients with AMI increased and reached the levels observed in the control group.