These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Relation between the clinical course of acute myocardial infarction and specific sensitization of lymphocytes and lymphotoxin production].
    Author: Uuskiula MM, Lamp KM, Martin SI.
    Journal: Kardiologiia; 1987 Feb; 27(2):57-60. PubMed ID: 3494877.
    Abstract:
    Seventy-eight patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) were examined in order to assess the place of immune response caused by myocardial necrosis in the clinical pattern of the disease. The extent of autosensitization was estimated on the basis of E-RFC inhibition and lymphotoxin production in lymphocyte cultures in the presence of myocardial antigen. Sensitized lymphocytes emerge in the blood during the second week in primary acute MI, and during the first day in repeated acute MI. Patients with marked autosensitization more frequently developed recurrent anginal attacks and cardiovascular insufficiency; they were the only ones to show Dressler's syndrome and fatal outcomes. A positive correlation between cell sensitization and elevated IgG was seen during the third week of the disease. Lymphotoxin production tended to be increased in patients with repeated acute MI and Dressler's syndrome.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]