Digoxin toxicity presenting as encephalopathy

J R Greenaway; B Abuaisha; M G Bramble

doi:10.1136/pgmj.72.848.367

Digoxin toxicity presenting as encephalopathy

Postgrad Med J. 1996 Jun;72(848):367-8. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.72.848.367.

Authors

J R Greenaway¹, B Abuaisha, M G Bramble

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medicine, Middlesbrough General Hospital, Cleveland, UK.

Abstract

We describe two cases of digoxin toxicity presenting with clinical and electroencephalographic evidence of encephalopathy without other features of digoxin toxicity.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Brain Diseases / chemically induced*
Brain Diseases / diagnosis
Diagnosis, Differential
Digoxin / poisoning*
Female
Humans
Poisoning / diagnosis

Substances

Digoxin