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Patients showing cardiac arrhythmias that required transfer for specialised management had significantly higher mean serum cardiac glycoside and potassium but not magnesium concentrations. Although there was considerable overlap between groups, those with conduction defects affecting both sinus and AV nodes had significantly higher mean serum cardiac glycoside levels.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Most of these young previously healthy patients had conduction defects affecting the sinus or AV nodes. Relatively few had the atrial or ventricular tachyarrhythmias or ventricular ectopic beats that are typical of digoxin poisoning. Serious yellow oleander induced arrhythmias were associated with higher serum cardiac glycoside concentrations and hyperkalaemia but not with disturbances of magnesium.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/heart.83.3.301","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2002,7,27]],"date-time":"2002-07-27T06:37:59Z","timestamp":1027751879000},"page":"301-306","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":109,"title":["Acute yellow oleander (<i>Thevetia peruviana<\/i>) poisoning: cardiac arrhythmias, electrolyte disturbances, and serum cardiac glycoside concentrations on presentation to hospital"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"83","author":[{"given":"M","family":"Eddleston","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"aCentre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK, \n\nbDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka, \n\ncTherapeutic Antibodies 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