[Bile acid levels in the serum and the state of liver blood flow in patients with rheumatic mitral heart disease].

The total and fractional content of blood bile acids (BA) was studied by the method of thin-layer chromatography and rheohepatography was performed in 87 patients with rheumatic mitral disease (mitral stenosis and associated mitral heart disease with prevalence of stenosis). There was a direct dependence between the degree of clinical and rheohepatographic signs of disorders of the hemodynamics and increase of the level of serum BA, a more pronounced therapeutic effect with normalization of BA, concentration in the blood after complex treatment using hepatotropic drugs than with use of traditional drugs (non-steroid antiinflammatory, cardiac glycosides, diuretics and others.).