[Impact of alcohol abuse on the composition of serum lipids in patients with tonsillitis].

The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of alcohol abuse on the composition of serum lipids in patients with tonsillitis. The values of the serum lipid spectrum were studied in 100 alcohol abusers with Streptococcus-induced lacunar tonsillitis, 100 alcoholics without markers of viral hepatitis, and 50 healthy individuals. The effect of alcohol was shown in elevated triglyceride levels in patients with alcoholism and tonsillitis. Exposed to bacterial infection, the tonsillitis patients who abused alcohol had higher levels of phospholipids and free cholesterol and lower concentrations of free fatty acids and cholesterol esters than the alcoholics. The tonsillitis patients who abused alcohol were observed to have more considerable changes in the spectrum of phospholipids as a low relative content of lysophospholipids and higher levels of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine than the alcoholics, which may be due to the predominant impact of bacterial infection.