... the impact of treatment with digitalis on recurrences of ventricular tachyarrhythmias in implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) recipients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF). Background: The data regarding outcomes of digitalis therapy in ICD recipients are limited. Methods: A large...

...Antonio Vitarelli; Francesco Fedele; Alessandra Dagianti; Maria Penco; Luciano Raffaele Pastore; Armando Dagianti The available data suggest that digitalis improves symptoms of a failing heart in the presence of sinus rhythm as well as supraventricular arrhythmias. Intravenous digitalis...

... resulted in an enhancement of cardiac performance greater than that produced by digoxin, enoximone could be a useful and powerful substitute for digoxin in the acute therapy of severe chronic congestive heart failure with sinus rhythm. Enoximone Digitalis Inotropic drugs Congestive heart failure...

... have been helpful in formulating treatment strategies for patients with chronic congestive heart failure. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors have emerged as distinctly useful pharmacologic therapy for this condition, and digitalis and diuretics are still widely used. New clinical trials are being...

...Arthur Selzer Whereas the use of digitalis in atrial fibrillation is universally accepted, its administration in patients in sinus rhythm for its inotropic properties has recently been questioned. The risk of digitalis administration is high and may be unavoidable because of the occurrence...

..., positive inotropic effect with digoxin. Since digitalis is the only presently available, chronic, oral positive inotropic drug capable of increasing stroke volume at any given filling pressure, it should be used in patients with congestive heart failure. 1 02 1987 8 02 1987 11 11 2008...

...Lenore R. Zohman; Linda R. Carroll The nitroglycerin (NTG) exercise test can help in detecting ischemia in the presence of right bundle branch block ( RBBB ), left bundle branch block ( LBBB ), or digitalis-induced exercise ST changes and in excluding ischemia when a falsely positive test...

... previous myocardial infarction. 50 patients (group I) did not receive any treatment; 20 patients (group II) received digitalis as preventive treatment of atrial arrythmias or for no particular reason. Only subjects with concordant results in radionuclide and angiography examinations were considered...

... Verapamil Digitalis Neo-ajmaline Abstract. The electrocardiograms of 80 ambulatory patients receiving antiar­ rhythmic therapy were supervised with the help of a transtelephonc monitoring system. The patients used a pocket-size modulator and reported several times daily to the receiving center...

...Richard J. Kones Digitalis is a potent inhibitor of sarcolemmal sodium (Na + ), potassium (K + )-ATPase, and, through this property, effects net movement of calcium (Ca ++ ) into the myocardial cell. Augmented contractility probably directly results from increased concentrations of activator Ca...

...A. Dolara; A. Manetti; L. Pozzi; G. Tordini Eight cases of tachycardia with alternating form of the ventricular complexes are reported. Digitalis treatment was associated with each of them. Death occurred in 7 cases several days after correction of the arrhythmia. © 1970 S. Karger AG, Basel 1970...

... with an artificial pacemaker set at Key Words a fixed rate were studied for the hemodynamic response at Digitalis rest and during exercise before and after the administration Proscillaridin of proscillaridin, a glycoside from Scilla maritima. Five such Hemodynamics patients were studied in the same way before...

...Simion Cotoi; Stefan I. Dragulescu In 15 patients with atrial fibrillation under digitalis treatment a pseudonormalisation of the ST-T downward arch was observed. This phenomenon takes place after a short and definite interval following the preceding QRS complex and may be considered...

... in association with acute CHF. In five patients, CAM resulted from acute pulmonary embolism. Excessive use of isoproterenol was responsible for CAM in nine patients, while in four digitalis toxicity was the underlying agent. Five patients suffered from space-occupying lesions of the posterior atrial...

... conduction system does not depend upon autonomic innervation to function normally. Electro-physiologic studies of digitalis demonstrated: (1) in therapeutic doses, the AV nodal blocking effect of digitalis is autonomically mediated; (2) sinus node slowing by digitalis also requires an intact autonomic...

...Richard A Gillis; Peter B Corr; Daniel G Pace; Delbert E Evans; Joseph DiMicco; David L Pearle The purpose of our studies was to examine the role of the nervous system in arrhythmias produced by digitalis overdose and coronary artery occlusion in the cat. This was done by observing the effect...