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19845

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
25-28
pubmed:dateCreated
1977-10-14
pubmed:abstractText
The routine detection of chronic alcoholism is necessary during any medical examination whether private or in hospital, or in occupational medicine. The practitionner now has available a simple reliable and cheap test. It consists of the serum estimation of gamma-glutamyl-transferase (gammaGT) and interpretation of the average red cell volume supplied by automatic counting of the red cell. Out of 120 chronic alcoholic subjects ; 67% has a gammaGT increased and 44% had macrocytosis. Under the influence of weaning, there was a rapid fall in gammaGT and a slower reduction in average red cell volume. gammaGT estimation was thus a more sensitive test than M.C.V. for the detection of chronic alcoholics and the control of withdrawal. Its association with the rise in immunoglobulin A-transferrin ratio which we have suggested permits the detection of almost all chronic alcoholics in the population studied.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:author
pubmed:volume
53
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1503-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
[Detection of excessive chronic alcoholic consumption and control of withdrawal. Comparative study of respective values of the mean red-cell volume and serum gamma-glutamyl-transferase activity].
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, English Abstract