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 ...

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 ...

The Coombs antiglobulin test has surely proved of immense importance in detecting antibody globulin on the surface of the red cell, as in isoimmune and autoimmune hemolytic anemia, as well as in cross ...

The objective of the study was to determine whether initiation of early phototherapy in positive direct Coombs' test (DCT) with ABO-incompatible newborns would prevent severe jaundice. A prospective ...

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 ...