[Alteration of serum enzyme activity after trauma and/or bacterial infection (author's transl)]

Our clinical and experimental study is based on the evaluation of the changes in enzymatic activity produced by surgical, traumatic and infectious agression. To this end we have evaluated the activity of the transaminase (GOT-GPT), malic dehydrogenase (MDH), lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) and creatine phosphokinase (CPK). The details of our study are based on a total of 175 patients and 82 animals (dogs). Our results show that the highest rate of enzymatic activity was in proportion to the seriousness of the wound (lesion) produced. The clinical course-index developed from the activity of CPK and MDH allows us to evaluate and predetermine the course which our patients and our animals were to follow.