[Immunologic shifts at different stages of coronary disease]

Immunologic shifts and indices of nonspecific reactivity were examined in 261 coronary heart disease patients (40 patients with angina pectoris, 137 with acute myocardial infarction and 124 patients with postinfarctional cardiosclerosis). Cell-mediated and humoral immune responses to the infarctional antigen affecting the prognosis and the clinical course of the disease were determined in the acute, subacute and long-term periods of coronary pathology. Autoimmune reactions to the myocardial innate antigen can be detected at all stages of coronary heart disease. Myocardial infarction is also characterized by dysfunctions of individual links of nonspecific reactivity.