DIGITALIS AND INTRACTABLE HEART FAILURE

Digitalis and intractable heart failure.

Digitalis in Heart Failure with Normal Rhythm.

In the first edition of his Diseases of the Heart, published in 1908, Mackenzie said: " the nodal rhythm is present in the majority of cases of severe heart failure and in a great many the immediate breakdown is directly attributable to the inception by the heart of this abnormal rhythm." In the third edition, in 1913, the term " auricular fibrillation " was substituted for that of " nodal rhyt...

Digitalis Therapy in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure

Herbal Medicine, sometimes referred to as Herbalism or Botanical Medicine, is the use of herbs for their therapeutic or medicinal value. An herb is a plant or plant part valued for its medicinal, aromatic or savory qualities. Herb plants produce and contain a variety of chemical substances that act upon the body. The term digitalis or digitalis compounds are all used to refer to the entire grou...

Is there a role for digitalis in chronic heart failure?

The main clinical guidelines recommend the use of digitalis for chronic heart failure when moderate to severe symptoms persist after standard therapy, even though there is controversy about its efficacy and security. Searching in Epistemonikos database, which is maintained by screening 30 databases, we identified three systematic reviews including 13 randomized trials. We combined the evidence ...

Alternative to the digitalis glycosides for heart failure.