[Clinico-biochemical parallels in neurotoxicoses in children]

The authors present the results of examining the plasma lipids in 62 children with an infectious neurotoxic syndrome. The children were suffering from acute respiratory viral infections, lobular pneumonia, or intestinal infections. Hyperlipidemia and dysphospholipidemia were revealed: the former was due primarily to a rise of the content of non-saturated fatty acids and triglycerides, and the latter to a drop of the lecithin and cephaline levels. These changes correlated with the disease gravity. No substantial differences in the plasma lipid spectrum were revealed in the children with the neurotoxicoses due to the acute respiratory infections, pneumonias, and intestinal infections, however, in the latter cases a more marked rise of the triglyceride content was noted.