The Predictive Value of the Serum Digoxin Concentration in the Management of Hospitalized Patients
作者:
Graham Schapel,
Terry Jones,
Trevor Draysey,
Jeffrey Crocker,
Gerald Davies,
Michael Robinson,
Timothy Read,
Philip Stanley,
期刊:
Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
(OVID Available online 1981)
卷期:
Volume 3,
issue 2
页码: 137-142
ISSN:0163-4356
年代: 1981
出版商: OVID
关键词: Predictive value;Serum digoxin concentration
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Serum digoxin concentration (SDC) was compared with clinical and ancillary predictors as a guide to adjustment of digoxin dose and as a test for digitalis toxicity in a total of 76 hospitalized patients during a period of 9 months. The mean SDC (3.6 ± 2.5 nmoles/liter) associated with unexpected discontinuation of therapy was significantly higher (p< 0.001) than that (1.1 ± 0.6 nmoles/liter) associated with unaltered digoxin dose, while the mean SDC (0.6 ± 0.4 nmole/liter) associated with unexpected dose increase was significantly lower (p< 0.05). There was no significant association between other pharmacokinetic or pharmacodynamic predictors and therapeutic intention. There was a 13% incidence of confirmed digitalis intoxication. The mean SDC (3.6 ± 1.9 nmoles/liter) of patients presenting and confirmed as digitalis toxic was significantly higher (p< 0.001) than that (1.4 ± 0.6 nmoles/liter) involving a situation in which digitalis toxicity could not initially be excluded by other means. The predictive value of an SDC ≥ 2.6 nmoles/liter for toxicity was 80%, and its efficiency for diagnosing both toxicity and nontoxicity was 95%. The SDC was thus shown to be a valid test of digitalis toxicity and to provide extraordinary information enabling the clinician to modulate digoxin therapy precisely.
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