[Enzyme-inhibitory imbalance in suppurative-infective diseases in puerperants]. / Narusheniia fermentno-ingibitornogo balansa pri gnoino-septicheskikh zabolevaniiakh u rodil'nits.

The blood plasma granulocyte elastase activity and the urine acid-fast inhibitor level have been measured in 23 healthy puerperae and in 65 puerperae with various pyo-septic complications in the postpartum period. These parameters have been found stable in healthy puerperae and shifted in those with pyo-septic complications: elastase activity increased parallel with the reduction of the acid-fast inhibitor level. The most manifest shifts in the enzymatic inhibitor balance have been observed in the puerperae with peritonitis. These data indicate the pathogenetic role of the enzymatic inhibitor imbalance in the development of pyo-septic complications postpartum.