What's the difference between digitalin and digitalis?
Digitalin
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Digitalis
Definition:
(n.) A genus of plants including the foxglove.
(n.) The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.
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(1) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
(2) The median blood levels were lower in hyperacidic subjects and higher in hypoacidic patients; the urinary excretion of the digitalis compound showed no essential differences.
(3) Three cases of simultaneous atrial and a-v junctional tachycardia, related to the administration of digitalis and occurring in a short period of 16 months, are reported.
(4) The model identified the following important variables: sex (relative risk (rr) = 2.4), beta-blocker withdrawal (rr = 2.1), performance on exercise test and digitalis treatment (rr = 2.3, P less than 0.05).
(5) The serum levels were correlated with the clinical signs of digitalis toxicity and the indications for determination of the serum digoxin concentration were established.
(6) The specificity of the treadmill test in patients who had received digitalis was 73%.
(7) There was no evidence of either myocardial infarction, abnormal electrolyte state, or digitalis intoxication.
(8) We also found that drugs with increase [Ca++]i, such as digitalis, exacerbated these abnormalities, whereas drugs that lower [Ca++]i, such as verapamil, or agents that increase cyclic AMP, such as forskolin, prevented them.
(9) The polar EDLF (ouabain-displacing compound 1; ODC-1) fulfills the criteria for the putative natriuretic and vasoactive digitalis-like factor.
(10) As part of a health examination of a representative sample (n = 8,000) of the adult Finnish population, cardiac state was assessed in the 747 digitalis users and the 6,329 non-users who participated in the survey.
(11) The present study demonstrates that adrenal glands removed from rats and then chopped release an immunoreactive digitalis-like material into a serum-free minimal incubation medium.
(12) These observations suggest that the diseased diabetic myocardium shows diminished sensitivity to digitalis toxicity.
(13) The prompt treatment by IV furosemide may be beneficial in the management of massive digitalis overdose.
(14) Prevention of digitalis toxicity in amiodarone-treated patients would therefore require monitoring of thyroid function every three to six months.
(15) Thus, their cyclopentanoperhydrophenanthrene or perhydrophenanthrene nuclei appear to serve as the minimal pharmacophoric lead structures for bimolecular recognition and to represent chemical models for the chemical nature of endogenous digitalis.
(16) Preoperative use of digitalis was found in 14 (31%) patients in group A and in 18 (12%) patients in group B (p less than 0.01).
(17) Mortality is significantly increased in the 20% to 30% of patients on digitalis who are in a toxic state when admitted to the hospital.
(18) The acute effects of oral enoximone on rest and exercise hemodynamics, ejection fraction, aerobic metabolism, exercise capacity, and arrhythmias were studied in 11 patients with moderate to moderately severe dilative cardiomyopathy after 8 days of enoximone (100 mg tid) in addition to baseline therapy (diuretics and digitalis).
(19) The digitalis-like substance (DLS), insulin resistance, and hyperglycemia are ascribed important roles in the pathogenesis of essential hypertension.
(20) All patients were pretreated with digitalis and diuretics, some also with conventional vasodilators.