Digoxin is a chemical derived from the plant Digitalis purpurea, more commonly known as foxglove, and belongs to the class of medicines known as cardiac glycosides (https:/ /bnf.nice.org.uk/treatment-summaries/cardiac-glycosides/) 1 . Digoxin is used to treat a variety of cardiovascular conditions and provides inotropic activity (i.e. alters the force or energy of the heart muscle’s contractions) in the management of heart failure (/article/ld/pathophysiology-and-management-of-heart-failure) , and negative chronotropic e$ect (i.e. slows the heart rate) in treating abnormal heart rhythms, such as atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation (/article/ld/atrial-fibrillation-symptoms-diagnosis-and-management) 2 .
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