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 ...

Digoxin, originally derived from the foxglove flower, blocks the sodium/potassium ATPase pump. The mechanism by which this decreases atrioventricular (AV) conduction is not clear, butperhaps it is due ...

Heart failure (HF) is the leading cause of hospitalization among older adults. Digoxin has been shown to reduce hospitalization due to worsening HF. However, at the commonly prescribed dose of 0.25 mg ...

I walked around the stack of useless insurance forms for an afternoon. Buried within it were five requests to change the medication regimen of patients served well for a decade. When I read the latest ...

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 ...