PEDIATRICS Vol. 70 No. 3 September 1982, pp. 472-473
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Massive Digoxin Poisoning Treated with Fab Fragments of Digoxin-Specific Antibodies

Daniel J. Murphy Jr MD1, W. Fraser Bremner MD1, Edgar Haber MD1, Vincent P. Butler Jr MD1, Thomas W. Smith MD1, and Winston E. Gaum MD1

1 Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston; and Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York

Acute digoxin poisoning is an uncommon but potentially lethal event in childhood. A case of massive digoxin ingestion and its successful treatment with Fab fragments of digoxin-specific antibodies is described.

Submitted on November 30, 1981
Accepted on May 20, 1982