[Immunoreactivity in ischemic heart disease of atherosclerotic etiology]

Using a combined immunomorphologic and clinico-immunologic approach to the analysis of section and clinical findings, the authors introduce a specific nosological form of coronary heart disease in which there is a cause-and-effect relation implying the development of sensitization to atherogenic lipoproteins, rapid advance of coronary atherosclerosis and the onset of coronary insufficiency.