Structural and functional base of coronary heart disease typology

According to the modern views, coronary heart disease (CHD) is a heterogeneous disease with pathophysiological and pathomorphological features. In clinical practice, CHD often is combined with other cardiac and extra-cardiac pathology, which results in certain clinical CHD types. The review describes the best-known of these types, as well as suggests the potential new types, which might affect early diagnostics and effective treatment of CHD.