[Changes in the levels of serum lipids and lipoprotein fractions of patients with acute alcoholic hepatitis].

Some serum lipid and lipoprotein fractions were investigated in 58 patients with acute alcoholic hepatitis and in 20 clinically healthy subjects. A significantly higher level of cholesterol, total lipids, triglycerides, LDL-cholesterol, free cholesterol and a lower level of esterified cholesterol were detected in the patients with alcoholic hepatitis. The level of beta-lipoproteins was raised, a beta-lipoproteins/alpha-lipoproteins ratio rising significantly. In 71% of the patients the presence of LP-cholesterol as a symptom of evident or clinically latent cholestasis was revealed. The above changes were correlated, to a large extent, with the gravity of liver affection.