Expert Consensus on the Diagnosis and Management of Digoxin Toxicity - 18/12/24

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While there has been a decline in the use of digoxin in patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation, acute and chronic digoxin toxicity remains a significant clinical problem. Digoxin's narrow therapeutic window and nonspecific signs and symptoms of toxicity create clinical challenges and uncertainty around the diagnostic criteria of toxicity and responsive treatment choices for the bedside clinician. A systematic review of published literature on digoxin toxicity (34,587 publications over 6 decades, with 114 meeting inclusion criteria) was performed to develop 33 consensus statements on diagnostic and therapeutic approaches which were then evaluated through a modified Delphi process involving a panel of experts in cardiology, nursing, emergency medicine, and medical toxicology. The results demonstrate agreement about the need to consider time of ingestion and nature of the exposure (ie, acute, acute-on-chronic, chronic) and the use of digoxin immune Fab for life-threatening exposure to decrease risk of death. While several areas of continued uncertainty were identified, this work offers formalized guidance that may help providers better manage this persistent clinical challenge.
El texto completo de este artículo está disponible en PDF.Keywords : Digoxin immune Fab, Digoxin toxicity, Expert consensus
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| Funding: Financial support for conduct of the study was provided by BTG Pharmaceuticals. The sponsor did not have a role in study design, collection, analysis and interpretation of data, or in the decision to submit. |
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| Conflict of interest: All authors report receiving consulting fees from BTG Pharmaceuticals for participating in this project. There are no other relevant conflicts of interest to declare. JBH, SW, RZ, MWR and PJH report a relationship with BTG plc that includes: consulting or advisory and non-financial support. The honoraria were provided solely for this project. Administrative support was provided by Synchrony Communications via BTG. |
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| Authorship: JBH: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Project administration, Methodology, Formal analysis, Conceptualization; SW: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Methodology; RZ: Writing – review & editing, Methodology; MWR: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Methodology, Formal analysis; PJH: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Supervision, Project administration, Methodology, Formal analysis, Conceptualization. |
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