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digoxin

Drug derived from digitalis that increases the force of the heart's contraction and is commonly used to treat heart failure. It is readily effective, whereas the related drug, digitoxin, is slow-acting. Side effects include loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and, sometimes, cardiac arrhythmia.
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Patients who were taking digitalis (n=10) or patients with a right (n=6) or left (n=3) bundle branch block were not excluded from this analysis because the baseline ST-segment abnormalities could be distinguished from acute ischemic changes in the ST segment when continuous trends in the ST segment were analyzed.
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Initially, regular physicians strove to combat consumption with treatments such as leeching, blistering, bleeding, opium, and digitalis.
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For example, antihypertensive/cardiac drugs, such as calcium channel blockers, beta blockers, digitalis, and the cardiac glycosides, can cause depression yet may never be considered for this.
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