Negative Direct Coombs’ Tests in Narcotic Addicts Receiving Maintenance Doses of Methadone

Autor:	J. Blair Webster, Mary H. McGinniss, Richard N. Katon, Robert L. DuPont, Geoffrey K. Sherwood
Rok vydání:	1972
Předmět:	Direct coombs test Methadone maintenance medicine.diagnostic_test Urinalysis business.industry Immunology Cell Biology Hematology Biochemistry Methadone maintenance therapy Narcotic addicts Coombs test Anesthesia Medicine Opiate business Methadone medicine.drug
Zdroj:	Blood. 40:902-904
ISSN:	1528-0020 0006-4971
DOI:	10.1182/blood.v40.6.902.902
Popis:	Direct Coombs’ tests (antiglobulin tests) were performed on blood from 103 opiate users prior to methadone maintenance therapy and 67 long-term methadone maintenance patients. No positive tests were observed in either group. Drug urinalyses revealed that all of the methadone maintenance patients were, in fact, taking methadone, as well as other drugs. This result conflicts with a report in which 85% of the methadone maintenance patients had positive direct Coombs’ tests.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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