Article date: December 1976
By: J.K. ARONSON, D.G. GRAHAME‐SMITH, in Volume 3, Issue 6, pages 1045-1051
Three cases are described in which renal failure was accompanied by a lowered apparent volume of distribution of digoxin. In two cases this resulted in frank digoxin toxicity and in one equivocal toxicity. In all three cases digoxin plasma levels were greater than 2 ng/ml.
The possible causes of the abnormal distribution of digoxin in renal failure are discussed.
Recommendations are outlined for the use of digoxin in patients with renal failure aimed at circumventing the problem raised by a lowered apparent volume of distribution of the drug.
Three cases are described in which renal failure was accompanied by a lowered apparent volume of distribution of digoxin. In two cases this resulted in frank digoxin toxicity and in one equivocal toxicity. In all three cases digoxin plasma levels were greater than 2 ng/ml.
The possible causes of the abnormal distribution of digoxin in renal failure are discussed.
Recommendations are outlined for the use of digoxin in patients with renal failure aimed at circumventing the problem raised by a lowered apparent volume of distribution of the drug.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.1976.tb00356.x
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