[Diagnosis of cardiac lesions in the generalized form of meningococcal infection].

Activity of the enzymes indicating heart affection in the acute period and in disease dynamics was increased in 97 patients with generalized forms of meningococcal infection. Signs of cytolysis, according to the data of enzymatic blood examination, were revealed to the utmost degree in patients with typical complications of meningococcal infection--brain edema, which persisted for 10 days of the disease. Herpetic infection joins twice as often in patients with brain edema and is accompanied by a pronounced cytolytic component in the myocardium and liver. Infectious cardiopathy as compared to other complications is characterized by a longer period of hyperenzymemia and the increment of the enzyme activity is greater in the acute period.