We had an older female with chronic kidney disease who started complaining about seeing yellow lights and being short of breath. She had a history of heart failure and was treated with digoxin. When ...

Explaination: As previously stated, digoxin toxicity itself results in hyperkalemia, however hypokalemia significantly increases the risk for serious arrhythmias in the digoxin toxic patient. Digoxin ...

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 ...

Digoxin is a drug used to treat heart failure and irregular heartbeats known as a “cardiac glycoside”. It is obtained from the leaves of the foxglove plant (Digitalis lanata) and is available in ...

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 ...