Autoimmunity to the heart in cardiac disease. Current concepts of the relation of autoimmunity to rheumatic fever, postcardiotomyand postinfarction syndromes and cardiomyopathies

Am J Cardiol. 1969 Oct;24(4):459-73. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(69)90489-5.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Autoantibodies / analysis
  • Autoimmune Diseases*
  • Cardiomyopathies / immunology
  • Collagen Diseases / immunology
  • Complement System Proteins / analysis
  • Endomyocardial Fibrosis / immunology
  • Fluorescent Antibody Technique
  • Heart Diseases / immunology*
  • Humans
  • Methods
  • Myocardial Infarction / immunology
  • Myocarditis / immunology
  • Myocardium / immunology
  • Pericarditis / immunology
  • Postpericardiotomy Syndrome / immunology
  • Rabbits
  • Rats
  • Rheumatic Fever / immunology
  • Rheumatic Heart Disease / immunology
  • Rheumatic Heart Disease / microbiology
  • Streptococcus / immunology
  • gamma-Globulins / analysis

Substances

  • Autoantibodies
  • gamma-Globulins
  • Complement System Proteins