The biochemical and morphological changes in the myocardium of patients with an acute surgical vascular pathology (based on data from early autopsies)]

Biochemical and morphological disorders of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PDH) were studied in the myocardium of 9 patients who had died from different vascular surgical diseases. The inhibition of G-6-PDH activity most prominent in lung artery thromboembolism was shown biochemically. Histological and histoenzymological findings demonstrate low G-6-PDH activity in different myocardial regions and solitary defects of cardiomyocytes. The data obtained evidence significant sensibility of the myocardium in surgical patients to different influences.