Standards of laboratory practice: cardiac drug monitoring

R Valdes Jr, SA Jortani, M Gheorghiade - Clinical chemistry, 1998 - academic.oup.com
Abstract In this Standard of Laboratory Practice we recommend guidelines for therapeutic
monitoring of cardiac drugs. Cardiac drugs are primarily used for treatment of angina …

Comparable effects of DIGIBIND and DigiFab in thirteen digoxin immunoassays

GA McMillin, WE Owen, TL Lambert, BK De… - Clinical …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Digoxin is widely prescribed for the treatment of cardiac conditions (1). Because of its narrow
therapeutic range, digoxin-related toxicity resulting from acute or chronic overdose is …

Solid-phase immunoassay of digoxin by measuring time-resolved fluorescence.

P Helsingius, I Hemmilä, T Lövgren - Clinical chemistry, 1986 - academic.oup.com
We describe a time-resolved fluoroimmunoassay for the cardiac glycoside digoxin. The
assay depends on the competitive distribution of Eu3+-labeled anti-digoxin antibodies …

Therapeutic drug monitoring of digoxin: impact of endogenous and exogenous digoxin-like immunoreactive substances

A Dasgupta - Toxicological reviews, 2006 - Springer
Digoxin is a cardioactive drug with a narrow therapeutic range. Therapeutic drug monitoring
is essential in clinical practice for efficacy as well as to avoid digoxin toxicity. Immunoassays …

New Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Digoxin Assay on the ADVIA® IMS™ 800i System Is Virtually Free from Interference of Endogenous Digoxin-like Immunoreactive …

A Dasgupta, E Kang, P Datta - Therapeutic drug monitoring, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Endogenous digoxin-like immunoreactive factors (DLIF) may crossreact with antidigoxin
antibody and falsely elevate immunoassay results. Recently, a new enzyme-linked …

Digoxin immunoassay with cross-reactivity of digoxin metabolites proportional to their biological activity

JJ Miller, RW Straub Jr, R Valdes Jr - Clinical chemistry, 1994 - academic.oup.com
Our objective was to identify commercially available digoxin immunoassays whose cross-
reactivity with digoxin metabolites paralleled the pharmacological activity of the metabolites …

Monitoring of unbound digoxin in patients treated with anti-digoxin antigen-binding fragments: a model for the future?

R Valdes Jr, SA Jortani - Clinical chemistry, 1998 - academic.oup.com
Digoxin is one of the few therapeutic drugs for which antidotal therapy is available (1).
Administration of Fab fragments has successfully been used to reverse the effects of life …

A new interference in some digoxin assays: Anti‐murine heterophilic antibodies

C Liendo, JK Ghali, SW Graves - Clinical Pharmacology & …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Background We describe a patient with cirrhotic liver disease and atrial fibrillation who was
treated with spironolactone and digoxin. He was hospitalized because of an incidental …

Effect of digoxin Fab antibodies on five digoxin immunoassays

MR Ujhelyi, DM Cummings, P Green… - Therapeutic Drug …, 1990 - journals.lww.com
Following digoxin Fab antibody (FAB) administration in digitalistoxic patients, total serum
digoxin concentrations (SDCS) become elevated, but do not correlate with pharmacologic …

Digoxin and its related endogenous factors

SA Jortani, R Valdes, SI Soldin… - Critical reviews in …, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
The digitalis drugs are plant-derived cardenolide compounds used medicinally for several
hundred years. These drugs elicit inotropic and chronotropic effects on the heart, but they …