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Digoxin

Index Digoxin

Digoxin (better known as Digitalis), sold under the brand name Lanoxin among others, is a medication used to treat various heart conditions. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 126 relations: Abortion, ACE inhibitor, Acetic acid, Actavis, Action potential, Adverse drug reaction, Amiodarone, Antiarrhythmic agent, Antidote, Arrhythmia, Arthur Robertson Cushny, Assessment of kidney function, ATPase, Atrial fibrillation, Atrial flutter, Atrial tachycardia, Atrioventricular node, Atrium (heart), Automaticity, Baroreceptor, Beta blocker, Biological half-life, Blend word, Blood plasma, Blood pressure, Brain, Brand, Breast, Calcium, Calcium channel blocker, Caraco, Cardiac action potential, Cardiac glycoside, Cardiac muscle, Cardiology, Cardiovascular disease, Charles Cullen, Chronotropic, Class action, Clearance (pharmacology), Day, Digitalis, Digitalis lanata, Digitoxin, Digoxigenin, Diuretic, Ectopic beat, Edema, Eggerthella lenta, Electrocardiography, ... Expand index (76 more) »

  2. Cardenolides
  3. Inotropic agents

Abortion

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.

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ACE inhibitor

Angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors) are a class of medication used primarily for the treatment of high blood pressure and heart failure.

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Acetic acid

Acetic acid, systematically named ethanoic acid, is an acidic, colourless liquid and organic compound with the chemical formula (also written as,, or). Vinegar is at least 4% acetic acid by volume, making acetic acid the main component of vinegar apart from water. Digoxin and acetic acid are World Health Organization essential medicines.

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Actavis

Actavis Generics (formerly known as Watson Pharmaceuticals and Actavis plc, prior to the acquisition of Irish-based Allergan, Inc.) is a global pharmaceutical company focused on acquiring, developing, manufacturing and marketing branded pharmaceuticals, generic and over-the-counter medicines, and biologic products.

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Action potential

An action potential occurs when the membrane potential of a specific cell rapidly rises and falls.

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Adverse drug reaction

An adverse drug reaction (ADR) is a harmful, unintended result caused by taking medication.

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Amiodarone

Amiodarone is an antiarrhythmic medication used to treat and prevent a number of types of cardiac dysrhythmias. Digoxin and Amiodarone are World Health Organization essential medicines.

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Antiarrhythmic agent

Antiarrhythmic agents, also known as cardiac dysrhythmia medications, are a class of drugs that are used to suppress abnormally fast rhythms (tachycardias), such as atrial fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardia and ventricular tachycardia.

See Digoxin and Antiarrhythmic agent

Antidote

An antidote is a substance that can counteract a form of poisoning.

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Arrhythmia

Arrhythmias, also known as cardiac arrhythmias, are irregularities in the heartbeat, including when it is too fast or too slow.

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Arthur Robertson Cushny

Arthur Robertson Cushny FRS FRSE LLD (6 March 1866 – 25 February 1926), was a Scottish pharmacologist and physiologist who became a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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Assessment of kidney function

Assessment of kidney function occurs in different ways, using the presence of symptoms and signs, as well as measurements using urine tests, blood tests, and medical imaging.

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ATPase

ATPases (Adenosine 5'-TriPhosphatase, adenylpyrophosphatase, ATP monophosphatase, triphosphatase, SV40 T-antigen, ATP hydrolase, complex V (mitochondrial electron transport), (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase, HCO3−-ATPase, adenosine triphosphatase) are a class of enzymes that catalyze the decomposition of ATP into ADP and a free phosphate ion or the inverse reaction.

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Atrial fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation (AF, AFib or A-fib) is an abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia) characterized by rapid and irregular beating of the atrial chambers of the heart.

See Digoxin and Atrial fibrillation

Atrial flutter

Atrial flutter (AFL) is a common abnormal heart rhythm that starts in the atrial chambers of the heart.

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Atrial tachycardia

Atrial tachycardia is a type of heart rhythm problem in which the heart's electrical impulse comes from an ectopic pacemaker (that is, an abnormally located cardiac pacemaker) in the upper chambers (atria) of the heart, rather than from the sinoatrial node, the normal origin of the heart's electrical activity.

See Digoxin and Atrial tachycardia

Atrioventricular node

The atrioventricular node or AV node electrically connects the heart's atria and ventricles to coordinate beating in the top of the heart; it is part of the electrical conduction system of the heart.

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Atrium (heart)

The atrium (entry hall;: atria) is one of the two upper chambers in the heart that receives blood from the circulatory system.

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Automaticity

In the field of psychology, automaticity is the ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low-level details required, allowing it to become an automatic response pattern or habit.

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Baroreceptor

Baroreceptors (or archaically, pressoreceptors) are sensors located in the carotid sinus (at the bifurcation of common carotid artery into external and internal carotids) and in the aortic arch.

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Beta blocker

Beta blockers, also spelled β-blockers, are a class of medications that are predominantly used to manage abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmia), and to protect the heart from a second heart attack after a first heart attack (secondary prevention).

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Biological half-life

Biological half-life (elimination half-life, pharmacological half-life) is the time taken for concentration of a biological substance (such as a medication) to decrease from its maximum concentration (Cmax) to half of Cmax in the blood plasma.

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Blend word

In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.

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Blood plasma

Blood plasma is a light amber-colored liquid component of blood in which blood cells are absent, but which contains proteins and other constituents of whole blood in suspension.

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Blood pressure

Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure of circulating blood against the walls of blood vessels.

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Brain

The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals.

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Brand

A brand is a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that distinguishes one seller's good or service from those of other sellers.

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Breast

The breast is one of two prominences located on the upper ventral region of the torso among humans and other primates.

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Calcium

Calcium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ca and atomic number 20. Digoxin and Calcium are World Health Organization essential medicines.

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Calcium channel blocker

Calcium channel blockers (CCB), calcium channel antagonists or calcium antagonists are a group of medications that disrupt the movement of calcium through calcium channels.

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Caraco

A caraco is a style of woman's jacket that was fashionable from the mid-18th to early 19th centuries.

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Cardiac action potential

Unlike the action potential in skeletal muscle cells, the cardiac action potential is not initiated by nervous activity.

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Cardiac glycoside

Cardiac glycosides are a class of organic compounds that increase the output force of the heart and decrease its rate of contractions by inhibiting the cellular sodium-potassium ATPase pump.

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Cardiac muscle

Cardiac muscle (also called heart muscle or myocardium) is one of three types of vertebrate muscle tissues, with the other two being skeletal muscle and smooth muscle.

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Cardiology

Cardiology is the study of the heart.

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Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels.

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Charles Cullen

Charles Edmund Cullen (born February 22, 1960) is an American serial killer.

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Chronotropic

Chronotropic effects (from chrono-, meaning time, and tropos, "a turn") are those that change the heart rate.

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Class action

A class action, also known as a class action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member or members of that group.

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Clearance (pharmacology)

In pharmacology, clearance (Cl_) is a pharmacokinetic parameter representing the efficiency of drug elimination.

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Day

A day is the time period of a full rotation of the Earth with respect to the Sun.

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Digitalis

Digitalis is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennial plants, shrubs, and biennials, commonly called foxgloves.

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Digitalis lanata

Digitalis lanata, vernacularly often called woolly foxglove or Grecian foxglove, is a species of foxglove, a flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae.

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Digitoxin

Digitoxin is a cardiac glycoside used for the treatment of heart failure and certain kinds of heart arrhythmia. Digoxin and Digitoxin are Cardenolides.

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Digoxigenin

Digoxigenin (DIG) is a steroid found exclusively in the flowers and leaves of the plants Digitalis purpurea, Digitalis orientalis and Digitalis lanata (foxgloves), where it is attached to sugars, to form the glycosides (e.g. digoxin, lanatoside C). Digoxin and Digoxigenin are Cardenolides.

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Diuretic

A diuretic is any substance that promotes diuresis, the increased production of urine.

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Ectopic beat

Ectopic beat is a disturbance of the cardiac rhythm frequently related to the electrical conduction system of the heart, in which beats arise from fibers or group of fibers outside the region in the heart muscle ordinarily responsible for impulse formation (i.e., the sinoatrial node).

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Edema

Edema (AmE), also spelled oedema (BrE), and also known as fluid retention, dropsy, hydropsy and swelling, is the build-up of fluid in the body's tissue.

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Eggerthella lenta

Eggerthella lenta is a Gram-positive, anaerobic species of bacteria which comprises part of the human microbiome.

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Electrocardiography

Electrocardiography is the process of producing an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), a recording of the heart's electrical activity through repeated cardiac cycles.

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Erythromycin

Erythromycin is an antibiotic used for the treatment of a number of bacterial infections. Digoxin and Erythromycin are World Health Organization essential medicines.

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Estradiol

Estradiol (E2), also spelled oestradiol, is an estrogen steroid hormone and the major female sex hormone.

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Estrogen

Estrogen (oestrogen; see spelling differences) is a category of sex hormone responsible for the development and regulation of the female reproductive system and secondary sex characteristics.

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FDA recall policies

The United States Food and Drug Administration has published certain product recall policies applicable to consumer products.

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Food and Drug Administration

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Generic drug

A generic drug (or simply generic) is a pharmaceutical drug that contains the same chemical substance as a drug that was originally protected by chemical patents.

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Glossary of biology

This glossary of biology terms is a list of definitions of fundamental terms and concepts used in biology, the study of life and of living organisms.

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Glucoside

A glucoside is a glycoside that is chemically derived from glucose.

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Glycoside

In chemistry, a glycoside is a molecule in which a sugar is bound to another functional group via a glycosidic bond.

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Gynecomastia

Gynecomastia (also spelled gynaecomastia) is the abnormal non-cancerous enlargement of one or both breasts in males due to the growth of breast tissue as a result of a hormone imbalance between estrogens and androgens.

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Half-life

Half-life (symbol) is the time required for a quantity (of substance) to reduce to half of its initial value.

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Heart failure

Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome caused by an impairment in the heart's ability to fill with and pump blood.

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Heart rate

Heart rate is the frequency of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute (beats per minute, or bpm).

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Hemodynamics

Hemodynamics or haemodynamics are the dynamics of blood flow.

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Hour

An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time historically reckoned as of a day and defined contemporarily as exactly 3,600 seconds (SI).

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Hyperkalemia

Hyperkalemia is an elevated level of potassium (K+) in the blood.

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Inotrope

An inotrope or inotropic is a drug or any substance that alters the force or energy of muscular contractions. Negatively inotropic agents weaken the force of muscular contractions. Positively inotropic agents increase the strength of muscular contraction. The term inotropic state is most commonly used in reference to various drugs that affect the strength of contraction of heart muscle. Digoxin and inotrope are inotropic agents.

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Intravenous therapy

Intravenous therapy (abbreviated as IV therapy) is a medical technique that administers fluids, medications and nutrients directly into a person's vein.

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Iron(III) chloride

Iron(III) chloride describes the inorganic compounds with the formula (H2O)x.

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James Mackenzie (cardiologist)

Sir James Mackenzie (12 April 1853 – 26 January 1925) was a Scottish cardiologist who was a pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmias.

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Keller's reagent

Keller's reagent can refer to either of two different mixtures of acids.

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Kidney

In humans, the kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped blood-filtering organs that are a multilobar, multipapillary form of mammalian kidneys, usually without signs of external lobulation.

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Lanatoside C

Lanatoside C (or isolanid) is a cardiac glycoside, a type of drug that can be used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat). Digoxin and Lanatoside C are Cardenolides.

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Liver

The liver is a major metabolic organ exclusively found in vertebrate animals, which performs many essential biological functions such as detoxification of the organism, and the synthesis of proteins and various other biochemicals necessary for digestion and growth.

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Medication package insert

A package insert is a document included in the package of a medication that provides information about that drug and its use.

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Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist

A mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA or MCRA) or aldosterone antagonist, is a diuretic drug which antagonizes the action of aldosterone at mineralocorticoid receptors.

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Moiety (chemistry)

In organic chemistry, a moiety is a part of a molecule that is given a name because it is identified as a part of other molecules as well.

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Mortality rate

Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.

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Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M2

The muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M2, also known as the cholinergic receptor, muscarinic 2, is a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor that in humans is encoded by the CHRM2 gene.

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Muscarinic agonist

A muscarinic agonist is an agent that activates the activity of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor.

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Muscle contraction

Muscle contraction is the activation of tension-generating sites within muscle cells.

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Mylan

Mylan N.V. was a global generic and specialty pharmaceuticals company.

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Myocardial contractility

Myocardial contractility represents the innate ability of the heart muscle (cardiac muscle or myocardium) to contract.

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Nicholas Culpeper

Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616 – 10 January 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer.

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Oral administration

| name.

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P-glycoprotein

P-glycoprotein 1 (permeability glycoprotein, abbreviated as P-gp or Pgp) also known as multidrug resistance protein 1 (MDR1) or ATP-binding cassette sub-family B member 1 (ABCB1) or cluster of differentiation 243 (CD243) is an important protein of the cell membrane that pumps many foreign substances out of cells.

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Parasympathetic nervous system

The parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS) is one of the three divisions of the autonomic nervous system, the others being the sympathetic nervous system and the enteric nervous system.

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Parole

Parole (also known as provisional release or supervised release) is a form of early release of a prison inmate where the prisoner agrees to abide by behavioral conditions, including checking-in with their designated parole officers, or else they may be rearrested and returned to prison.

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Pathognomonic

Pathognomonic (rare synonym pathognomic) is a term, often used in medicine, that means "characteristic for a particular disease".

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Perfusion

Perfusion is the passage of fluid through the circulatory system or lymphatic system to an organ or a tissue, usually referring to the delivery of blood to a capillary bed in tissue.

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Peripherally selective drug

Peripherally selective drugs have their primary mechanism of action outside of the central nervous system (CNS), usually because they are excluded from the CNS by the blood–brain barrier. Digoxin and Peripherally selective drug are Peripherally selective drugs.

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Placebo

A placebo is a substance or treatment which is designed to have no therapeutic value.

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Potassium

Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number19.

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Pregnancy

Pregnancy is the time during which one or more offspring develops (gestates) inside a woman's uterus (womb).

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Propensity score matching

In the statistical analysis of observational data, propensity score matching (PSM) is a statistical matching technique that attempts to estimate the effect of a treatment, policy, or other intervention by accounting for the covariates that predict receiving the treatment.

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Protein

Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Purkinje fibers

The Purkinje fibers, named for Jan Evangelista Purkyně, (Purkinje tissue or subendocardial branches) are located in the inner ventricular walls of the heart, just beneath the endocardium in a space called the subendocardium.

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Quinidine

Quinidine is a class IA antiarrhythmic agent used to treat heart rhythm disturbances.

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Randomized controlled trial

A randomized controlled trial (or randomized control trial; RCT) is a form of scientific experiment used to control factors not under direct experimental control.

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Refractory period (physiology)

Refractoriness is the fundamental property of any object of autowave nature (especially excitable medium) not responding to stimuli, if the object stays in the specific refractory state.

See Digoxin and Refractory period (physiology)

Sarcoplasmic reticulum

The sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is a membrane-bound structure found within muscle cells that is similar to the smooth endoplasmic reticulum in other cells.

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SGLT2 inhibitor

SGLT2 inhibitors (also called gliflozins or flozins) are a class of medications that inhibit sodium-glucose transport proteins in the nephron (the functional units of the kidney), unlike SGLT1 inhibitors that perform a similar function in the intestinal mucosa.

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Sinoatrial node

The sinoatrial node (also known as the sinuatrial node, SA node or sinus node) is an oval shaped region of special cardiac muscle in the upper back wall of the right atrium made up of cells known as pacemaker cells.

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Sodium

Sodium is a chemical element; it has symbol Na (from Neo-Latin natrium) and atomic number 11.

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Sodium-calcium exchanger

The sodium-calcium exchanger (often denoted Na+/Ca2+ exchanger, exchange protein, or NCX) is an antiporter membrane protein that removes calcium from cells.

See Digoxin and Sodium-calcium exchanger

Sodium–potassium pump

The sodium–potassium pump (sodium–potassium adenosine triphosphatase, also known as -ATPase, pump, or sodium–potassium ATPase) is an enzyme (an electrogenic transmembrane ATPase) found in the membrane of all animal cells.

See Digoxin and Sodium–potassium pump

Spironolactone

Spironolactone, sold under the brand name Aldactone among others, is a diuretic medication primarily used to treat fluid build-up due to heart failure, liver scarring, or kidney disease. Digoxin and Spironolactone are World Health Organization essential medicines.

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Stillbirth

Stillbirth is typically defined as fetal death at or after 20 or 28 weeks of pregnancy, depending on the source.

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Stroke volume

In cardiovascular physiology, stroke volume (SV) is the volume of blood pumped from the ventricle per beat.

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Sulfuric acid

Sulfuric acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid (Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen, with the molecular formula.

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T wave

In electrocardiography, the T wave represents the repolarization of the ventricles.

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Tetracycline

Tetracycline, sold under various brand names, is an oral antibiotic in the tetracyclines family of medications, used to treat a number of infections, including acne, cholera, brucellosis, plague, malaria, and syphilis. Digoxin and tetracycline are World Health Organization essential medicines.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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Therapeutic index

The therapeutic index (TI; also referred to as therapeutic ratio) is a quantitative measurement of the relative safety of a drug.

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Titration

Titration (also known as titrimetry and volumetric analysis) is a common laboratory method of quantitative chemical analysis to determine the concentration of an identified analyte (a substance to be analyzed).

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Toxicity

Toxicity is the degree to which a chemical substance or a particular mixture of substances can damage an organism.

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Troponin C

Troponin C is a protein which is part of the troponin complex.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Vagus nerve

The vagus nerve, also known as the tenth cranial nerve, cranial nerve X, or simply CN X, is a cranial nerve that carries sensory fibers that create a pathway that interfaces with the parasympathetic control of the heart, lungs, and digestive tract.

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Ventricle (heart)

A ventricle is one of two large chambers located toward the bottom of the heart that collect and expel blood towards the peripheral beds within the body and lungs.

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Ventricular fibrillation

Ventricular fibrillation (V-fib or VF) is an abnormal heart rhythm in which the ventricles of the heart quiver.

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Ventricular tachycardia

Ventricular tachycardia (V-tach or VT) is a cardiovascular disorder in which fast heart rate occurs in the ventricles of the heart.

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Verapamil

Verapamil, sold under various trade names, is a calcium channel blocker medication used for the treatment of high blood pressure, angina (chest pain from not enough blood flow to the heart), and supraventricular tachycardia. Digoxin and Verapamil are World Health Organization essential medicines.

See Digoxin and Verapamil

Volume of distribution

In pharmacology, the volume of distribution (VD, also known as apparent volume of distribution, literally, volume of dilution) is the theoretical volume that would be necessary to contain the total amount of an administered drug at the same concentration that it is observed in the blood plasma.

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WHO Model List of Essential Medicines

The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (aka Essential Medicines List or EML), published by the World Health Organization (WHO), contains the medications considered to be most effective and safe to meet the most important needs in a health system. Digoxin and WHO Model List of Essential Medicines are World Health Organization essential medicines.

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William Withering

William Withering FRS (17 March 1741 – 6 October 1799) was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and first systematic investigator of the bioactivity of digitalis.

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See also

Cardenolides

Inotropic agents

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digoxin

Also known as ATC code C01AA05, ATCvet code QC01AA05, Antidigoxin, C41H64O14, Cardoxin, Cogoxin, Cordioxil, Davoxin, Digacin, Digitalin, Digitekt, Digomal, Dilanacin, Dixina, Dixogin, Dokim, Eudigox, Homolle's Digitalin, Lanacordin, Lanacrist, Lanicor, Lanoxicaps, Lanoxin, Lenoxicaps, Lenoxin, Lifusin, Longdigox, Mapluxin, Natigoxin, Neo-Lanicor, Neodioxanin, Rougoxin, SK-Digoxin, Serious digitalis intoxication, Sigmaxin, Stillacor, Vanoxin.

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