title: [Myocardial diseases: their etiology, nomenclature and classification (apropos of the classification of noncoronarogenic myocardial lesions published in Kardiologiia No. 5, 1978)].
abstract: The main forms of "noncoronarogenous" diseases of the heart muscle and the problems of their nomenclature are discussed, an attempt is made in particular to determine the borderline between the concepts of "myocardial dystrophy" and "cardiomyopathy". The article also deals with the role of infections in the origin of inflammatory processes in the heart muscle (myocarditis) and its dystrophy. A conclusion is drawn on the expediency, from the standpoint of nomenclature, to designate the pathological condition of the myocardium in the course of an infectious disease only by the term "myocarditis". The relation between "primary cardiomyopathies" and Fiedler's idiopathic myocarditis is discussed. The possible role of virus infection in the origin of the indicated forms of myocardial diseases is considered. The classification of noncoronarogenous myocardial lesions published in Kardiologia (1978, No. 5) is discussed. The author of the present article thinks that it may be appraised quite favourably on the whole, and also makes some remarks.
mesh_terms: D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000145:classification / Q000209:etiology*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000145:classification; D006801:Humans; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000145:classification / Q000209:etiology; D013577:Syndrome; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Bolezni serdechnoĭ myshtsy: ikh étiologiia, nomenklatura, klassifikatsiia (po povodu klassifikatsii nekoronarogennykh povrezhdeniĭ miokarda, opublikovannoĭ v No. 5 zhurnala "Kardiologiia" za 1978 g.).