In the ‘old’ days (late’70s)
we used to measure digitoxin using the digoxin immunoassay. That was in
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Sent: 18 December 2008 09:20
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Subject: digitoxin
Hi
We have a patient on digitoxin with poor renal
function, and the clinicians would like to measure the blood concentration. Do
any of you have an assay for TDM digitoxin levels to which we could send
samples, or know of one?
Regards
Steve
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