Digoxin therapy may reduce the risk for new-onset or worsening heart failure in patients with symptomatic rheumatic heart disease.

Digoxin, a cardiac glycoside derived from the foxglove plant, has been a mainstay of treatment in systolic heart failure and in rate control for atrial fibrillation. By inhibiting the cardiac ...

Oct. 30, 2002 — Digoxin may pose a risk of death for women with heart failure, according to a retrospective analysis published in the Oct. 31 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Yet ...

A low dose of digoxin ensures that people with heart failure are hospitalized and die less frequently. This emerges from three studies led by UMCG cardiologists Dirk Jan van Veldhuisen, Kevin Damman, ...

University at Buffalo researchers have identified for the first time an enzyme in the foxglove plant that is responsible for the production of compounds needed to make the heart failure drug digoxin.

MADRID -- Digitoxin added to guideline-directed medical therapy improved outcomes among patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), the DIGIT-HF trial showed. The cardiac ...

Older adults with symptomatic HF should be prescribed digoxin in low doses starting at 0.125 mg/d. For persons with HF who are 75 years and older, are women, have renal insufficiency, are receiving ...

At present, digoxin should not be recommended for the treatment of patients with mild-to-moderate diastolic HF with preserved LVEF of greater than 45% in sinus rhythm This was an ancillary study ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo researchers have identified for the first time an enzyme in the foxglove plant that is responsible for the production of compounds needed to make the heart ...

Heart drugs called digitalis glycosides, which include digoxin and digitoxin, have been used for centuries, but their place in the modern treatment of heart failure remains undefined. Results were ...

A 240-year-old drug called digoxin could save the National Health Service (NHS) at least £100 million each year when treating older patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure. This was ...