[Phagocytic activity of the leukocytes in congenital heart defects before and after an operation under artificial...

The authors confirm a well-known statement concerning a direct correlation between phagocytic activity of neutrophiles and the degree of oxygenation of an organism. According to their findings the percentage of phagocytic neutrophiles and absorbing activity of phagocytes is cases with a "blue type" heart disease is significantly lower than in patients with moderate hypoxemia. The development of an infectious process has been proved to occur in patients with a low immunoreactivity against the background of a further decrease of natural immune protection factors of an organism.