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 ...

Medical topics worthy of writing about transcend the details of the drug or device and implicate a broader lesson. The medical establishment's turn against digoxin perfectly illustrates this duality.

Digoxin is a medication used to help treat heart failure and heartbeat irregularities. Your digoxin levels tell you the amount of digoxin that is in your body at a certain time. Having too much or too ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grinnell and Smith 1 have demonstrated that castrated female dogs prophylactically treated with œstradiol-17β are much more resistant to a toxic intravenous dose of digoxin than are untreated ...

The special problem posed by digitoxin and some of the other purified glycosides should not be interpreted as indicating a difference in basic action of this drug. All digitalis preparations have ...