The clinical manifestations and lipid peroxidation processes in patients with erysipelas

In 60 patients with erysipelas the levels of lipid peroxidation products (total polyenic, dienic conjugates, ketodienes and conjugated triens, Schiff bases) and the antioxidant defense system (the enzymatic activity of superoxide dismutase) were determined. The hemorrhagic form of erysipelas was most common (53.3%). The proportion of patients with recurrent erysipelas remains stably high (36.7%). Local purulent complications develop rather frequently (6.7%). A marked imbalance remained between the excessively activated lipid peroxidation processes and the insufficiently functioning antioxidant defense system remained throughout the disease.

Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus pyogenes, erysipelas, lipid peroxidation, superoxide dismutase