[Blood serum lipoprotein spectrum in myocardial infarct]

The lipoprotein spectrum was studied in polyacrylamide gel and by thin-layer chromatography on silica gel in 236 patients with myocardial infarction in different periods of the disease, in 45 patients with unstable angina pectoris, in 75 healthy persons and in 8 dogs with experimental myocardial infarction. Besides an increase in the concentration of cholesterol and triglycerides and a decrease in the level of diglycerides in blood serum, there is a disturbance in the ratio of phospholipid fractions, mainly in myocardial infarction. The level of pre-beta-lipoproteins was increased in the acute period of myocardial infarction, the level of beta-lipoproteins in the subacute period. Complications and concomitant inflammatory diseases were attended by a higher level of beta-lipoproteins. A connection was noted between the lipoprotein spectrum, predominantly of the pre-beta-fraction, and the ABO phenotype and the season.