Immunologic disorders in noncoronary diseases of the myocardium

Rukosuev, V.S.; Moiseev, V.S.; Shelepin, A.A.; Ogurtsov, P.P.; Nanaev, A.K.

Klinicheskaia Meditsina 66(8): 71-75

1988


ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2149
PMID: 3193738
Document Number: 321603
Circulating antimyocardial antibodies in congestive cardiomyopathy, nonspecific myocarditis, alcoholic cardiac damage and ischemic heart disease can be determined by the immunofluorescent method only in some patients, mostly antibodies to muscle fiber sarcolemma. Antibodies to myocardial nerve fibers may occur in patients with various myocardial lesions, more frequently in patients with alcoholic cardiac damage. Antimyocardial antibodies may disappear in this latter group during abstinence. Lymphocyte migration inhibition may be more important for the diagnosis of myocardial immune damage.

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