Am J Psychiatry 1988; 145:1460-1461
Copyright © 1988 by American Psychiatric Association
Cold agglutinin titers in psychiatric patients
B Spivak, M Radwan, D Elimelech, A Molcho, G Avidan, R Ohring and S Tyano
Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tiqva, Israel.
Cold agglutinin titers were obtained from the serum of 41 psychiatric
patients. The 21 chronic schizophrenic patients tended to have positive
cold agglutinin titers; the authors suggest that this immunological finding
may be associated with long-term neuroleptic treatment.