Digoxin-like immunoreactive substance in the elderly patient and its impact on the TDx digoxin assay

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 417-421

  Yamamoto, Takatsugu ^c   Takano, Kikuo ^a   Sanaka, Masaki ^b   Nomura, Yoshiaki ^d   Koike, Yuichi ^d   Mineshita, Satoru ^d  

^a Sohsen Hospital   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Continuous intravenous drip infusion; Digoxin like immunoreactive substance (DLIS); Elderly; TDx digoxin assay

Indexed keywords

DIGITALIS LIKE FACTOR; DIGOXIN; SODIUM;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DIGOXIN BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; CARDENOLIDES; DIGOXIN; DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAPONINS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SODIUM;

EID: 0031857041     PISSN: 01634356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007691-199808000-00011     Document Type: Article

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