[On morphological diagnosis of alcohol-induced heart injury].

The present study revealed morphological changes that permit to distinguish between fatal cases caused by acute alcoholic intoxication, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, and drunkenness in subjects with coronary heart disease. It demonstrated the most characteristic histological features associated with lethal alcoholic intoxication, such as erythrocyte aggregation, blood sludge deposition in venules, cardiomyocitolysis, vascular plasmatization, dissociation of cardiomyocytes, etc.