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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 35, 295-297, Copyright © 1989 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Detection of poisoning by plant-origin cardiac glycoside with the Abbott TDx analyzer

K Cheung, JA Hinds and P Duffy
Department of Clinical Chemistry, Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, Australia.

Cardiac glycoside poisoning caused by ingestion of plant material is common in tropical and sub-tropical areas. In evaluating the use of the Abbott TDx Digoxin II assay to detect such cases of poisoning, we found it a rapid and convenient method for confirming the ingestion of glycosides from the plants Nerium oleander, Thevetia peruviana, and Adonis microcarpa, and from the toad Bufo marinus. Here we report some clinical cases illustrating our experience with the use of this assay, and describe results of cross-reactivity studies with compounds structurally similar to digoxin. Because of the competitive nature of the immunoassay as well as the complexity of the mixture of cross- reacting cardiac glycosides present in the plant material, the measured apparent digoxin concentration is not linearly related to the cardiac glycoside concentration.


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