[Lipid peroxidation in the blood of patients with suppurative meningitis].

It is shown that the dynamics of lipid peroxidation (LPO) in patients with purulent meningitis is unspecified in character and is encountered both in meningococcal and pneumococcal infection. The level of secondary LPO products and the degree of hyperfermentemia, which are determined according to the dynamics of changes in the activity of aspartate transaminase, are objective characteristics of the severity of the patient's condition and reach maximum on the 5th day of the disease. The correlation between the dynamics of the primary LPO products and the ceruloplasmin/transferin coefficient allows the severity of the disease to be prognosticated.