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 ...
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How foxglove went from deadly plant to heart medicine?
Foxglove, a flowering plant long feared for its toxicity, became an unlikely source of a widely studied heart drug. Digoxin, a cardiac glycoside associated in modern medicine with Digitalis species ...
NEW ORLEANS, LA—Treating patients with symptomatic rheumatic heart disease (RHD) with digoxin appears to modestly reduce the risk of all-cause mortality or new-onset or worsening heart failure (HF), ...
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 ...
Patients with rheumatic heart disease who took the heart failure drug digoxin were 18% less likely to die or experience ...
A sensitive (0.2 ng per milliliter), precise (standard deviation 3 to 4 per cent), and specific radioimmunoassay for serum digoxin concentration has been developed. Levels are determined by ...
Digoxin use among patients who are on hemodialysis (HD) may increase their risk of death, especially if they have low predialysis potassium levels, a study showed. HD patients who used digoxin had a ...
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