07/25/2008- Congestive heart failure (CHF), or heart failure, is a condition in which the heart can't pump enough blood to the body's other organs. Abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) are sequences of heartbeats that are irregular, too fast, too slow, or conducted via an abnormal electrical pathway through the heart.
As if congestive heart failure and abnormal heart rhythms weren’t bad enough – now individuals with these medical issues have to worry about the drug they were prescribed. The #1 choice for treating congestive heart failure and abnormal heart rhythms in the United States is Digitek (digoxin).
Actavis Totowa LLC voluntarily recalled the Digitek tablets because tablets manufactured at the New Jersey Actavis facility may have been released in the United States with double the thickness of the normal sized tablets.
The tablets may contain twice the active ingredient causing serious digitalis toxicity resulting in nausea, vomiting, dizziness, low blood pressure, cardiac instability, bradycardia and even death. For more information on this voluntary recall, please click on the following links:
• http://www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters/archive/g6007d.pdf
• http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/actavis04_08.html
