[Stromal lipids of peripheral blood erythrocytes and myocardial dystrophy in patients with iron deficiency anemia].

Lipid fractions (total lipids and phospholipids, triglycerides, free fatty acids, cholesterol, lysophospholipids, sphingomyelins, phosphatidylserines, phosphatidylcholines, phosphatidylethanolamines, cardiolipins, phosphatidic acids) were assessed in stromal red cells of 41 patients with iron deficiency anemia (IDA). The values obtained were correlated with wave T height at rest ECG. It was found that IDA patients have abnormalities in the lipid spectrum of red cell stroma promoting myocardiodystrophy. Therapeutic measures to normalize relevant lipid spectrum may become one of the factors preventing further dystrophic developments in the myocardium.