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JOHN J. PRENDERGAST, M.D.; RICHARD L. FENICHEL, M.S.; BYRNE M. DALY, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1952;64(6):733-740.

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HERETOFORE there has been no report of a systematic electrophoretic study of a series of human burn patients. Shedlovsky and Scudder¹ described an increase in the alpha globulin fraction of a single patient suffering from first, second and third degree burns. Murakami² studied the chemolytic albumin-globulin ratios of four patients who had suffered first and second degree burns and found that the globulin portion was somewhat increased at the expense of the albumin portion.

In the present investigation, blood protein patterns for a series of burn patients have been studied at regular intervals from the onset of thermal injury, through the period of the body's response to this stress, and until the onset of healing. Altogether, blood serum and blood plasma of eight hospitalized patients suffering primarily second and third degree burns ranging in extent from 10 to 35% of the total surface area of the body have . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
DETROIT

From the Medical Department, Chrysler Corporation.

Footnotes
Mr. Russell Robertson gave technical assistance during this investigation.

Dr. Osborne A. Brines, pathologist, and the resident surgeons at Detroit Receiving Hospital cooperated by enabling us to obtain blood samples in burn cases used in this study.

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