[Behaviour of blood digoxin, determined by the radioimmunity method, in patients with renal failure (author's transl)]

The authors used radioimmunity to study blood digoxin behaviour in patients with normal renal function and with variable BUN. The computerized and mathematically considered data showed that digitalic intoxication occurs with higher digoxin blood levels in patients with renal failure than in normal renal function cases. In the first case, moreover, it occurs sooner than in the second one, and the total digoxin dose is smaller than in normal patients. We have found that the large range of digosin blood levels is vital in deciding the therapeutic and toxic dose; that may be done, for most cases, following the estimate of the theoretical saturation dose using our method.