digitalis toxicity , DT (Abkürzung)
digoxin toxicity
digoxin poisoning

In cases such as these one should consider digoxin toxicity but this was not the case with his patient.

Only a small number of patients exhibited suspected digoxin toxicity.

The effects of intravenous calcium in patients with digoxin toxicity.

It could precipitate digoxin toxicity in patients who were already on the medication.

Furosemide may increase the risk of digoxin toxicity due to hypokalemia.

PR interval prolongation, however, may be a sign of digoxin toxicity.

Digoxin toxicity increases in individuals who have kidney impairment.

In addition, depressed conduction is a predominant feature of digoxin toxicity.

Officials said higher than labeled doses might pose a risk of digoxin toxicity in patients with renal failure.

Digoxin toxicity is often divided into acute or chronic toxicity.

Unexpected but unavoidable digoxin toxicity with no obvious cause.'

They are due to elevated cytosolic calcium concentrations, classically seen with digoxin toxicity.

Digoxin toxicity can cause nausea, vomiting, dizziness, low blood pressure, cardiac instability and slow heart rate.

It is contraindicated in patients with AV (atrioventricular) heart block or digoxin toxicity.

Conclusion: traditional ECG criteria for digoxin toxicity include many rhythms not associated with high concentrations.

High amounts of the electrolyte potassium (K+) in the blood (hyperkalemia) is characteristic of digoxin toxicity.

Some tablets had been released at double thickness and therefore double strength, causing some patients to experience digoxin toxicity.

Digoxin toxicity- IV formulation is drug of choice for arrhythmias caused by cardiac glycoside toxicity.

It has been postulated that Van Gogh may have exhibited a form of digoxin toxicity from foxglove plants used to treat his epilepsy.

• Decreased renal function, decreased renal clearance of drugs (digoxin toxicity)

This antidote has been shown to be highly effective in treating life-threatening signs of digoxin toxicity such as hyperkalemia, hemodynamic instability, and arrhythmias.

Can increase digoxin toxicity in patients taking digoxin by reducing serum potassium levels, thereby enhancing the effects of digoxin.

These are often seen in patients with ventricular arrhythmias due to digoxin toxicity and reperfusion therapy after myocardial infarction (MI).

In digoxin toxicity, the finding of frequent premature ventricular beats (PVCs) is the most common and the earliest dysrhythmia.

Importantly, toxicity was very low, with 2% of patients in this group requiring hospitalization for suspected digoxin toxicity compared to 0.9% of placebo patients.

This treatment is used for digoxin poisoning, another cardiac glycoside.

They noted that there was strong disagreement concerning whether or not baby Amber had died of digoxin poisoning.

Antidigoxin antibody fragments, the specific treatment for digoxin poisoning, are also effective in serious digitoxin toxicity.

Susan Nelles, was similarly charged with murder of children by digoxin poisoning at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children in 1981.

This book presents facts in defense of Susan Nelles which apply similarly to the false charge of digoxin poisoning directed against Lucia de Berk.

Without the misinterpretation of the autopsy blood digoxin levels, there would not have been any consideration of digoxin poisoning - and no criminal investigation would have occurred.

But his death certificate listed the cause of death as an abnormal heart rhythm and excess potassium - two well-known results of digoxin poisoning - without ever mentioning the drug.

History of poisoning (of a plant), ECG abnormalities that fit digoxin poisoning, and being in a region with N. oleander suggest poisoning with the plant.

The group said Digifab, BTG’s antidote for digoxin poisoning, also benefited from the withdrawal of rival drug DigiBind, which GlaxoSmithKline took off the market in March.

The causes of high autopsy blood digoxin are discussed thoroughly in a 2011 book, "The Nurses are Innocent - The Digoxin Poisoning Fallacy" (Dundurn Press, Toronto).

A dose of 400 mg is used in digoxin poisoning, but a dose of 800 mg is recommended for oleandrin poisoning due to the lower binding affinity of the antibody to oleandrin.

Gavin Hamilton, M.D., of London, Ontario, published a book, The Nurses are Innocent - The Digoxin Poisoning Fallacy, proving that very high blood digoxin levels should be expected in autopsy blood samples.

Lidocaine is also the most important class-1b antiarrhythmic drug; it is used intravenously for the treatment of ventricular arrhythmias (for acute myocardial infarction, digoxin poisoning, cardioversion, or cardiac catheterization) if amiodarone is not available or contraindicated.

In the case where digoxin poisoning was alleged, and supposedly detected by independent measurements in two Dutch laboratories, the method used in those laboratories did not exclude that the substance found was actually a related substance naturally produced in the human body.

After the appeal proceedings were closed, but before the judges delivered their verdict, the Public Prosecution Service received, via the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), a report from a forensic laboratory in Strasbourg on the evidence for digoxin poisoning.

The broader logic is that BTG gains the $100 million (£68 million) of annual revenues from CroFab and DigiFab, Protherics’s flagship products for rattlesnake bites and digoxin poisoning, while using its own cash pile to develop existing products and license in new ones from rivals.

It is sometimes associated with digitalis toxicity in patients with heart disease.

Scanning through them, he saw that they were accounts of two separate cases involving digitalis toxicity.

It can be associated with digitalis toxicity.

Amiodarone can worsen the cardiac arrhythmia brought on by digitalis toxicity.

In the 1970s, Edgar Haber first used antibodies to treat digitalis toxicity.

It tends to be a regular, narrow complex tachycardia and may be a sign of digitalis toxicity.

ST depression may be associated with subendocardial myocardial infarction, hypokalemia, or digitalis toxicity.

Double dose Digoxin tablets can cause digitalis toxicity and result in cardiac instability, bradycardia and death among other things.

Other causes include digitalis toxicity, induction of anesthesia, placement of surgical instrumentation into the thorax or as a benign, temporary phenomenon.

Strong vagal manoeuvres that cause sudden bradycardia may trigger ventricular fibrillation in the context of acute ischaemia or digitalis toxicity.

Notably, the electric cardioversion (to "shock" the heart) is generally not indicated in ventricular fibrillation in digitalis toxicity, as it can increase the dysrhythmia.

From the knowledge of the mechanism of action, combined use of Preotact and cardiac glycosides may predispose patients to digitalis toxicity if hypercalcemia develops.

The litigation, brought by a Talladega woman and her husband, alleges defective Digitek pills caused her to suffer digitalis toxicity, a sometimes lethal reaction to an overdose of digoxin.

The existence of double-strength tablets poses a risk of digitalis toxicity in patients with renal failure and can cause nausea, vomiting, dizziness, low blood pressure, cardiac instability and bradycardia.

Pharmacological management of suspected beta-blocker overdose might be treated with glucagon, calcium channel blocker overdose treated with calcium chloride and digitalis toxicity treated with the digoxin immune Fab.