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Digitalis Toxicity Learning Center
- Heart Failure
- Digitalis Glycosides
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Renal Insufficiency
- Low Blood Potassium
- Magnesium, Decreased
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Drug Interactions
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Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, is a condition in which the heart can no longer pump enough blood to the rest of the body.
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Heart failure is a condition in which the heart has lost the ability to pump enough blood to the body's tissues. With too little blood being delivered, the organs and other tissues do not receive enough oxygen and nutrients to function properly.
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"Heart failure" is a broad term—often used inter-changeably with "congestive heart failure" (CHF)—to describe the heart's inability to consistently pump enough blood to the body's organs and tissues. Heart failure occurs either from a structural o...
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Digitalis drugs are medicines made from a type of foxglove plant ( Digitalis purpurea ) that have a stimulating effect on the heart.
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Hypokalemia is a condition of below normal levels of potassium in the blood serum. Potassium, a necessary electrolyte, facilitates nerve impulse conduction and the contraction of skeletal and smooth muscles, including the heart. It also facilitate...
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Hypomagnesemia means low levels of magnesium in the blood.
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Drug metabolism is the process by which the body breaks down and converts medication into active chemical substances.
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Drug interactions are changes in the effect of one drug due to the effect of either another drug taken at the same time (drug-drug interactions) or food consumed while the drug is being taken (drug-food interactions).
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