title: [Myocardial infarction and acute coronary syndrome: definitions, classification, and diagnostic criteria].
abstract: The review gives the definitions and classification of and diagnostic criteria for myocardial infarction and acute coronary syndrome in accordance with the "The third universal definition of myocardial infarction" adopted in 2012 (Joint ESC/ACCF/AHA/WHF Task Force for the Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction, 2012). It also discusses the clinical and morphological comparisons of and the problems in the differential diagnosis of myocardial infarction as a nosological entity within coronary heart disease with other coronarogenic and non-coronarogenic necroses of the myocardium.
authors.affiliation: Kafedra patologicheskoĭ anatomii GBOU VPO "Moskovskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ mediko-stomatologicheskiĭ universitet im. A.I. Evdokimova" Minzdrava Rossii.
authors.forename: O V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Zaĭrat'iants
authors.affiliation: FGBU "NII morfologii cheloveka RAMN", Moskva, Rossiĭskaia Federatsiia.
authors.forename: O D
authors.initials: OD
authors.lastname: Mishnev
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Kakturskiĭ
mesh_terms: D054058:Acute Coronary Syndrome / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D009336:Necrosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology