digitalis/edema

"Digitalis toxicity, often candidly indexed as poisoning, has plagued the medical profession for over 200 years. The situation qualifies as a professional disgrace on the basis of three items: the situation persists, physicians are often slow to recognize it and, over the decades, writers have been

Several visual functions were examined before and during self-application of therapeutic doses of digitoxin. The ERG recordings showed a reduction of the critical flicker fusion frequency from 70 Hz to 35-40 Hz. Recovery of color vision after macular photostress was examined with Nagel's

Several plant extracts containing cardiac glycosides have been used in the treatment of dropsy (oedemas) for many centuries. When William Withering 1785 published his book "An account of the foxglove and some of its medical uses", he was aware that digitalis is effective only in certain medical

The indication for digitalis treatment was investigated in a controlled and prospective study lasting 12 months in 110 patients on long-term haemodialysis. In ten patients, digitalis was needed because of tachyarrhythmia due to atrial fibrillation and in five because of recurrent pulmonary edema. In

William Withering was an established member of the renowned Lunar Society as well as an accomplished physician and botanist. Withering was an obsessive note taker and had a compulsion to observe and record. At the time when bleeding was the most common form of treatment for "dropsy", Withering's

This year we are celebrating the bicentenary of the publication, by William Withering, of An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medicinal Uses with Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases (1). During these two hundred years digitalis has constantly been to the fore of medical thinking

We measured plasma endogenous digitalis-like substances (EDLS), angiotensin II concentrations and plasma renin activity (PRA) by radioimmunoassay in 30 patients with pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH), 30 normal pregnant women during the third trimester, and 23 non-pregnant women. Compared to the

OBJECTIVE To report a case of cardiac arrhythmia related to a low dose of endovenous lanatoside C. METHODS A 23-year-old pregnant woman with mitral regurgitation complicated with preeclampsia and pulmonary edema presented 2 episodes of atrial tachycardia induced by a intravenous digitalis (2 mg, IV