We had an older female with chronic kidney disease who started complaining about seeing yellow lights and being short of breath. She had a history of heart failure and was treated with digoxin. When ...

THE heightened sensitivity of the diseased myocardium to digitalis, as manifested by toxic responses to average or small doses, is well established. 1 Chelating compounds that act by removing calcium ...

THE ascendancy of digitalis intoxication in recent years has made this problem and its recognition an ever important clinical consideration in every patient receiving the drug. Much of this increase ...

A Spanish study found that the mortality rates of patients with digoxin poisoning in emergency departments (EDs) were 4.5% at 7 days and 11.1% at 30 days and that cardiovascular and neurologic ...

Evaluation of the drug by Canadian regulatory authorities is under way. Paladin Labs will take over distribution of BTG’s treatment for digoxin toxicity or overdose in Canada. DigiFab™ is currently ...

Explaination: As previously stated, digoxin toxicity itself results in hyperkalemia, however hypokalemia significantly increases the risk for serious arrhythmias in the digoxin toxic patient. Digoxin ...

I walked around the stack of useless insurance forms for an afternoon. Buried within it were five requests to change the medication regimen of patients served well for a decade. When I read the latest ...

Chuck Sutherland, a famous children’s book illustrator, has been admitted to Hamptons Heritage, a hospital on Long Island, for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and a cardiac arrhythmia (in this case, ...

In patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) who have an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), the use of digoxin may increase the risk of ventricular tachyarrhythmia ...