[The prognostic significance of natural killers and dehydrogenases of the peripheral blood lymphocytes in patients with a suppurative inflammation].

In patients with purulent inflammation foci of various location, reduction in the number of natural killers (NK) and in the activity of alpha-glycerophosphatedehydrogenase (alpha-GPDH) and adenosinetriphosphatase (ATP-ase) of lymphocytes was revealed. Maximum reduction in indices of NK, alpha-GPDH and ATP-ase was noted in patients with diffuse peritonitis, phlegmonous-gangrenous cholecystitis, destructive appendicitis. After treatment, the mentioned indices increased, but by the time of discharge of the patients from the hospital they were lower than the normal ones.