SERUM GLUTAMIC-OXALACETIC TRANSAMINASE AND CEPHALIN-CHOLESTEROL FLOCCULATION TESTS IN ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESSES
FERRIS N. PITTS JR. M.D., and
GEORGE WINOKUR M.D.1
1 Dept. of Psychiatry and Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo.
A series of 75 consecutive psychiatric admissions were assessed for clinical diagnosis and laboratory determinations of CCF and SGOT. All CCF were negative. No instance of positive SGOT determination was found in the absence of specific and additional intoxication or metabolic [SEE SOURCE PDF TABLE 1] disfunction. This would tend to negate assertions that schizophrenia and/or other psychiatric illnesses are associated with hepatic dysfunction or significant cellular damage in other organ systems.
