[The significance of studying phospholipids in the diagnosis of hypothyroidism].

Phospholipids and their fractions were examined in 85 patients with hypothyroidism of various severity grades in the state of decompensation. It was established that hypothyroidism is characterized by essential disorders of the phospholipid metabolism which occurs already at the initial stages of the disease advances with progression of its severity and is manifested in an increase of phosphatidylserine, lysophosphatidylcholine, sphingomyelin, phosphatidylethanolamine and reduction of phosphatidylcholine. Examination of phospholipids and their fractions is one of the important supplementary objective methods of diagnosis of hypothyroidism, especially, in young persons, a criterion of metabolic decompensation of the disease.