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Fatal digoxin overdose.

D P Nicholls
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Overdosage with cardiac glycosides is well documented, but not usually fatal. A case is described in which cardiac arrest in asystole was associated with a serum digoxin level of 50-4 microgram/1, the highest concentration yet reported after oral administration.

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D P Nicholls. 1977. Fatal digoxin overdose.. https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.53.619.280

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