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Electrocardiographic Changes After Suicidal Digoxin Intoxication in a Healthy Woman

BACKGROUND: Suicidal digoxin intoxication is a rare clinical entity. Clinical suspicious remains of paramount importance as adequate interpretation of the electrocardiographic changes enable to readily initiate treatment. METHOD: We describe a case of suicidal attempt after massive digoxin intake th...

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Autores principales: Muñoz, Natalia Lorenzo, Buendía, Amparo Benedicto, Manterola, Fernando Alfonso
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28572865
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192401711010058
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description BACKGROUND: Suicidal digoxin intoxication is a rare clinical entity. Clinical suspicious remains of paramount importance as adequate interpretation of the electrocardiographic changes enable to readily initiate treatment. METHOD: We describe a case of suicidal attempt after massive digoxin intake that was satisfactory managed with conservative management strategy that involved a close clinical surveillance of the evolving electrocardiographic changes and digoxin serum levels.
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spelling pubmed-54479252017-06-01 Electrocardiographic Changes After Suicidal Digoxin Intoxication in a Healthy Woman Muñoz, Natalia Lorenzo Buendía, Amparo Benedicto Manterola, Fernando Alfonso Open Cardiovasc Med J Article BACKGROUND: Suicidal digoxin intoxication is a rare clinical entity. Clinical suspicious remains of paramount importance as adequate interpretation of the electrocardiographic changes enable to readily initiate treatment. METHOD: We describe a case of suicidal attempt after massive digoxin intake that was satisfactory managed with conservative management strategy that involved a close clinical surveillance of the evolving electrocardiographic changes and digoxin serum levels. Bentham Open 2017-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5447925/ /pubmed/28572865 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192401711010058 Text en © 2017 Muñoz et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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