[Value of the study of various erythrocyte enzymes in determining the nature of cerebral stroke in the acute period].

Activities of catalase, superoxide dismutase, glyceraldehyde phosphatedehydrogenase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase implicated in the process of hemoglobin oxygenation were studied and compared in 40 patients with ischemic and in 30 patients with hemorrhagic brain strokes in the most acute disease period (days 1-2). A well-defined relationship was revealed between the brain stroke pattern and enzymatic activity which is likely to be determined by varying degree of body adaptation under hypoxia developing in ischemic and hemorrhagic brain strokes. It is assumed that the clinico-enzymatic correlations discovered might be employed as additional criteria in the differential diagnosis of the brain stroke pattern.