A TWENTY-SEVEN-year-old woman with rheumatic heart disease had open-heart surgery on April 5, 1966. The direct Coombs tests before operation were negative. She was studied nine days later because of ...

Although we fully agree with Michael Sgro and colleagues regarding the need for early identification and effective management of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, we were surprised to see their ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Coombs direct test positive' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications.

It's a thrilling moment to welcome your baby into the world. Once your infant arrives, several tests need to be conducted to ensure their health, a Coombs test is one of them. A Coombs test is ...

ACQUIRED hemolytic anemia is commonly associated with a positive Coombs test; when of the "gamma type," this test indicates the presence of an immunoglobulin attached to the affected red cells. The ...

The article by J. Manuel Zarandona and Mark Yazer on the clinical utility of the Coombs test1 prompts consideration of the pitfalls of a negative test result. Specifically, further evaluation will be ...

(1) To determine whether infants born to O+ mothers who had selective cord-blood testing would have higher rates of clinically significant hyperbilirubinemia compared with those newborns who had ...

Robert Royston Amos Coombs, immunologist: born London 9 January 1921; Stringer Fellow, King's College, Cambridge 1947-56; Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 1962-2006; Reader in Immunology, ...

PLS (passenger lymphocyte syndrome) is a potentially life-threatening risk in lung transplants that has hardly been researched and is often underestimated in clinical practice. However, the ...