[Variants of albumin metabolic disorders in chronic heart failure].

Albumin metabolism was studied with the aid of 131 I- albumin in human blood serum in 5 healthy individuals and 40 patients with chronic cardiac insufficiency. It is shown that in patients with different degrees of circulatory insufficiency the loss of albumin with feces into gastro-intestinal lumen does not exceed the loss in the healthy individuals. The cardiac insufficiency is characterized by intracellular metabolic disorders of albumin of the hypercatabolic type.