[Endogenous blood ethanol in alcoholic patients and healthy subjects with and without a family history of alcoholism].

Abstract

Levels of endogenous ethanol were studied in healthy males, 12-13-year-old boys (sons of alcoholics and normal fathers) and alcoholic patients (after discontinuation of all drugs). The results showed no significant differences between the groups. On the other hand endogenous ethanol concentrations were higher than normal in oligophrenic boys irrespective of whether their fathers were alcoholics or healthy subjects. In the abstinence period endogenic ethanol concentrations were the minimal in patients with delirium tremens and a severe abstinence syndrome, the dynamics of this parameter in the process of treatment being dependent on the severity of the abstinence syndrome and on the nature of treatment.

• Authors: P S Pron'ko, S N Shishkin, V B Kolesnikov, S I Volynets, Iu M Ostrovskiĭ
• Journal: Zhurnal nevropatologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova (Moscow, Russia : 1952) (Zh Nevropatol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova) Vol. 87 Issue 3 Pg. 417-22 ( 1987) ISSN: 0044-4588 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: Endogennyĭ étanol krovi u bol'nykh alkogolizmom i zdorovykh lits s otiagoshchennoĭ i neotiagoshchennoĭ alkogolizmom nasledstvennost'iu.
• PMID: 3577537 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Ethanol

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium (blood)
• Alcoholism (blood, drug therapy, genetics)
• Child
• Ethanol (adverse effects, blood)
• Humans
• Intellectual Disability (blood, genetics)
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Risk
• Substance Withdrawal Syndrome (blood)