Suicidal digoxin intoxication in 61 year old patient
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Erwin Ciechański; Krystian Lech Ciechański; Michał Tchórz
- Source
- Journal of Education, Health and Sport, Vol 9, Iss 8, Pp 801-806 (2019)
- Subject
- digoxin intoxication
suicide
toxicology
Education
Sports
GV557-1198.995
Medicine
- Language
- English
Spanish; Castilian
Polish
Russian
Ukrainian
- ISSN
- 2391-8306
Digoxin is one of the oldest drugs used in cardiology. It belongs to subgroup of cardiac glycosides. Currently, due to limited indications for use, cases of poisoning with this group of drugs are becoming less common. Ease of poisoning results from the low therapeutic index and symptoms of intoxication may include many different systems. The most serious symptoms of overdose are cardiac arrhythmias. We present a case of a patient with suicide poisoning due to ingestion of 30 tablets of 0.1mg digoxin.