[Quantitative composition of blood plasma prostaglandins in patients with ischemic heart disease]

From the blood plasma of 34 patients with ischemic heart disease and hyperlipoproteinemia and without it and in 10 practically healthy persons prostaglandins E, A and F2alpha were isolated and the proportion of each one of them was determined by the radioimmunological method. Changes in the quantitative composition of the blood plasma prostaglandins in patients with ischemic heart disease and hyperlipoproteinemia were disclosed, these changes suggesting the participation of the substances in question in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis.