Congestive heart failure caused by digitalis toxicity in an elderly man taking a licorice-containing Chinese herbal laxative [3]

Cardiology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 218-

  Harada, Tomohiro ^a   Ohtaki, Eiji ^a   Misu, Kazuhiko ^a   Sumiyoshi, Tetsuya ^a   Hosoda, Saichi ^a  

^a SAKAKIBARA HEART INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; DIGITALIS; DIGOXIN; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCYRRHIZA EXTRACT; LAXATIVE;

AGED; CASE REPORT; CHINESE HERB; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG TOXICITY; GLYCYRRHIZA; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; CATHARTICS; DIGITALIS GLYCOSIDES; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; GLYCYRRHIZA; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0036953518     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000067316     Document Type: Letter

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