THE LIPIDS OF SERUM AND LIVER IN PATIENTS WITH HEPATIC DISEASES 1

Abstract

The investigations of dietary fatty livers have thrown into prominent relief the function of the liver in the intermediary metabolism of lipids. The discovery that these disorders may be reme- died or prevented by lipotropic agents may have important therapeutic implications since there is some evidence that the chemical and anatomical disturbances of the liver produced by some dis- eases and poisons resemble those found in dietary livers and that they may be amenable to the action of these lipotropic agents (1 to 3). These were among the reasons that led to an examination of the serum lipids in patients with diseases of the liver and pancreas and obstruction of the biliary