LIPIDS OF PERIPHERAL-BLOOD RED-CELLS AND MYOCARDIAL DYSTROPHY IN IRON-DEFICIENCY ANEMIA PATIENTS

Lipids of peripheral blood red cells (total lipids and phospholipids, triglycerides, free fatty acids, cholesterol, cholesterol ethers, lyso phospholipids, sphingomyelins, phosphatidylserins, phosphytidylethanol amines, phosphatidycholines, cardiolipins, phosphatid acids) were asse ssed in correlation with wave T height on resting ECG. It is shown tha t iron deficiency anemia patients develop shifts in red blood cell lip id composition contributing to the onset of mycardiodystrophy. The cor rection of the lipid composition defects is an additional factor decre asing dystrophic processes in the myocardium.