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[Suicidal digitalis poisoning: considerations concerning treatment strategy with antibodies].
Suicidal digitalis poisoning is life-threatening and often has a fatal outcome. The treatment and clinical course of acute poisoning with 250 mg digitoxin in a depressive male patient aged 48 years are reported. Marked elevation of serum digitoxin level (360 nmol/l 8 hours after ingestion) and initial hyperkalemia (5.7 mmol/l) as well as the history of excessive dose intake, pointed toward seve...
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Cardiac glycosides have played a prominent role in the therapy of congestive heart failure since William Withering codified their use in his late 18th century monograph on the efficacy of the leaves of the common foxglove plant (Digitalis purpurea). Despite their widespread acceptance into medical practice in the ensuing 200 years, both the efficacy and the safety of this class of drugs continu...
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THE USE of the cardiotonic steroids known as digitalis to treat cardiac disease dates back to Hippocrates. Although the use of digitalis to treat heart disease has decreased considerably, it appears that this agent still plays a role in modern cardiology. The mechanism of action of digitalis has, for many years, been assumed to depend on its capacity to inhibit the plasmalemmal Na-K-ATPase. Thi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1943
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.4300.694