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Plant Toxins: Poison or Therapeutic?

CHIMIA, 2020
Many plants that are classed as poisonous also have therapeutic uses, and this is illustrated using members of the Drimia and Digitalis genera which are sources of cardiac glycosides.
Catherine E. Housecroft
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Digitalis Glycosides for Heart Rate Control in Atrial Fibrillation.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020
Digitalis glycosides were first introduced into clinical use in 1785 by William Withering, a physician in Birmingham, England.1 A new study published in JAMA, also conducted by physic ians in Birmingham, provides novel information on the use of digoxin ...
G. Curfman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A suicide attempt by ingestion of oleander leaves and treatment with digoxin-specific Fab antibody fragments

Arhiv za Higijenu Rada i Toksikologiju, 2023
Natural cardiac glycosides have positive inotropic heart effects but at high, toxic doses they can cause life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias. Here we present the first Croatian case of a 16-year-old girl who attempted suicide by eating dried oleander ...
Kovačević Tanja, Polić Branka, Ardalić Tatjana Ćatipović, Petrović Davor, Stričević Luka, Rogulj Maja, Markić Joško   +6 more
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Comprehensive analysis of alternative splicing in Digitalis purpurea by strand-specific RNA-Seq. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Digitalis purpurea (D. purpurea) is one of the most important medicinal plants and is well known in the treatment of heart failure because of the cardiac glycosides that are its main active compounds. However, in the absence of strand specific sequencing
Bin Wu, Fengmei Suo, Wanjun Lei, Lianfeng Gu   +3 more
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Risk of Hospitalization for Adverse Drug Events in Women and Men: A Post Hoc Analysis of an Active Pharmacovigilance Study in Italian Emergency Departments

Pharmaceuticals, 2021
This post hoc analysis of an Italian active pharmacovigilance study describes pharmacological differences of ADEs leading to emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalization in women and men.
Giada Crescioli, Ennio Boscia, Alessandra Bettiol, Silvia Pagani, Giulia Spada, Giuditta Violetta Vighi, Roberto Bonaiuti, Mauro Venegoni, Giuseppe Danilo Vighi, Alfredo Vannacci, Niccolò Lombardi, on behalf of the MEREAFaPS Study Group   +11 more
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DIGitoxin to Improve ouTcomes in patients with advanced chronic Heart Failure (DIGIT-HF): Baseline characteristics compared to recent randomized controlled heart failure trials. [PDF]

Eur J Heart Fail
Effects of digitoxin compared to placebo on efficacy and safety in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). Primary endpoint: time to all‐cause death and first hospitalization for worsening heart failure (whatever occurs first). ACEi, angiotensin‐converting enzyme inhibitor; ARB, angiotensin receptor blocker; ARNI, angiotensin
Bavendiek U, Thomas NH, Berliner D, Liu X, Schwab J, Rieth A, Maier LS, Schallhorn S, Angelini E, Soltani S, Rathje F, Sandu MA, Geller W, Gaspar T, Hambrecht R, Zdravkovic M, Philipp S, Kosevic D, Nickenig G, Scheiber D, Winkler S, Becher PM, Lurz P, Hülsmann M, von Karpowitz M, Schröder C, Neuhaus B, Seltmann A, von der Leyen H, Veltmann C, Störk S, Böhm M, Koch A, Großhennig A, Bauersachs J, DIGIT‐HF Study Group.   +35 more
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Digitalis for treatment of heart failure in patients in sinus rhythm [PDF]

, 2014
<b>Background</b><p></p> Digitalis glycosides have been in clinical use for the treatment of heart failure (HF) for longer than 200 years.
Dans, Antonio L, Guyatt, Gordon H, Hood, Jr., William B, Jaeschke, Roman, McMurray, John JV   +4 more
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Studies on Digitalis Glycosides. The Configuration of Digiprogenin

Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 1964
Daisuke Satoh, Mieko Horie
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The EuroHeart Failure Survey programme—a survey on the quality of care among patients with heart failure in Europe Part 2: treatment [PDF]

, 2003
National surveys suggest that treatment of heart failure in daily practice differs from guidelines and is characterized by underuse of recommended medications.
Aguilar, JC, Cleland, J, Cohen-Solal, A, Dietz, R, Eastaugh, J, Follath, F, Freemantle, N, Gavazzi, A, Hobbs, R, Komajda, M, Korewicki, J, Madeira, HC, Mason, J, Moiseyev, VS, Preda, I, Swedberg, K, Van Gilst, WH, Widimsky, J   +17 more
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Cardiac Glycoside Plants Self-Poisoning

Acta Medica Bulgarica, 2014
Cardiac glycosides are found in a diverse group of plants including Digitalis purpurea and Digitalis lanata (foxgloves), Nerium oleander, Convallaria majalis (lily of the valley), Strophanthus gratus, etc.
Radenkova-Saeva J., Atanasov P.
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