[Is digitalis currently useful for heart failure treatment?].

نویسنده

  • José F Guadalajara-Boo
چکیده

Después del estudio DIG publicado en 19971 se ha observado un franco declive en el uso de la digital para el tratamiento de la insuficiencia cardiaca; más aún cuando han emergido nuevos medicamentos que han demostrado su utilidad en estos pacientes, especialmente porque reducen significativamente la mortalidad, y es por ello que viene a la mente que un fármaco tan antiguo como la digital está realmente obsoleto en nuestro tiempo; sin embargo, para poder concluir esta aseveración, como lo han hecho un gran número de cardiólogos, especialmente de las nuevas generaciones, valdría la pena reflexionar si efectivamente este viejo fármaco no tiene cabida en el manejo medico actual de la insuficiencia cardiaca, por lo que es conveniente revisar si existe evidencia de su utilidad al analizar los estudios más importantes que se hicieron a lo largo del siglo xx para conocer sus propiedades terapéuticas, que pudiera justificar su uso en nuestro tiempo. Como sabemos, la digital se ha usado durante más de 200 años para el tratamiento de este mal, pero obviamente no existían otros fármacos, además de los diuréticos, que pudieran tener acciones que justificaran su utilización; en 1920 el Maestro Ignacio Chávez realiza su tesis recepcional sobre la digital, y de ella se destacan 2 conceptos fundamentales que están vigentes hasta la fecha. En primer lugar, el Maestro menciona que este fármaco es útil para tratar «la

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico

دوره 84 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014