[The functional activity of the poly- and mononuclear leukocytes in patients with different clinical forms of ischemic heart disease].

: While studying the functional activity of poly- and mononuclear leucocytes in 75 patients with various clinical types of ischemic heart disease (angina of effort, angina decubitus, arrhythmias, cardiac insufficiency at the background of atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis and atherosclerotic hypertension), decline in the functional activity of the phagocytizing cells has been revealed, this being considered to be a pathogenetic prerequisite for atherosclerosis progression.