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What are the long-term benefits of digoxin therapy in pediatric heart failure?

April 26, 2017Benefits digoxin failure heart long-term pediatric therapy

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What are the long-term benefits of digoxin therapy in pediatric heart failure?

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Most of the experts felt that digoxin is helpful for control of symptoms and tiding over acute exacerbations of heart failure although there is no effect on long-term survival. Among the individual lesions, most experts were undivided in their opinion about the utility of digoxin in myocardial disease. Some experts (JMS, BRJK) felt that digoxin does not influence outcomes in patients’ left-to-right shunts and valve regurgitations at all.