[The fatty acid composition of the lipids in the sweat of patients with complications in the acute period of a myocardial infarct].

Sweat lipids fatty acid (FA) composition was determined in patients presenting with uncomplicated course of acute myocardial infarction and in the development of pulmonary edema and pneumonia with the aid of a gas-chromatographic technique. The development in the patients of pulmonary complications was found out to be accompanied by a substantial elevation of sweat lipids content of polyunsaturated FA, linoleic and arachidonic FA in particular, which fact can be taken as a diagnostic and prognostic criterion.