Digitalis Glycosides for Heart Rate Control in Atrial Fibrillation.
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
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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+6 more
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Digitalis for treatment of heart failure in patients in sinus rhythm [PDF]
<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+4 more
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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]
National surveys suggest that treatment of heart failure in daily practice differs from guidelines and is characterized by underuse of recommended medications.
Aguilar, JC+17 more
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Comprehensive analysis of alternative splicing in Digitalis purpurea by strand-specific RNA-Seq. [PDF]
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+3 more
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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+11 more
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Severity of the cardiac impairment determines whether digitalis prolongs or reduces survival of rats with heart failure due to myocardial infarction [PDF]
Background: the aim of the present study was to evaluate if the influence of digitalis on survival depends on the severity of cardiac dysfunction in heart failure (HF).Methods and results: Doppler echocardiogram (DE) parameters were analyzed in 84 Wistar
Antonio, Ednei Luiz+4 more
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Cardiac Glycoside Plants Self-Poisoning
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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Studies on Digitalis Glycosides. The Configuration of Digiprogenin
Daisuke Satoh, Mieko Horie
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Prospecting endophytic fungal assemblage of Digitalis lanata Ehrh. (foxglove) as a novel source of digoxin: a cardiac glycoside [PDF]
Endophytes, the chemical synthesizers inside plants, are the microorganisms having mutualistic relationship with the host plant. They can be used by plants for defense in addition to the production of a wide variety of beneficial bioactive secondary ...
Khalid Zargar+4 more
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