Alterations of the percentage of lymphocytes in patients with acute myocardial infarction and clinical evaluation.

In order to investigate the human immunological response to acute myocardial infarction (AMI), lymphocyte cells of peripheral vein blood withdrawn from patients with AMI were continuously and quantitatively assayed by flow cytometry method (FCM). The correlation between the alterations of immunological function and clinical course was analyzed. MATERIAL AND METHODS Thirty-one samples were collected from peripheral vein blood of hospitalized patients with AMI in the author's institution. The patients were aged from 39 to 81 years, ( 26 men and 5 women ). Samples withdrawn from 14 healthy adults served as normal control.