Summary
Complexes of bivalent tin with polyoxybenzene-polysulfonic acids have a diuretic effect, when injected subcutaneously in dogs or rabbits. The same compounds also sensibilize the cardiotonic effect of digitalis-substances on the isolated heart or on fragments of the isolated heart as usually employed for testing digitalis-substances.
In a small number of patients suffering from heart disease, a rapid increase of their till then lowered diuresis was induced through subcutaneous injections of a solution of the above mentioned tin complex.
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Ein Verfahren zur Reindarstellung dieser Stoffe wurde zum Patent angemeldet (H. Handovsky undE. de Mahler, Brüssel, Nr. 359270 vom 16, 2. 1946).
Vgl.Handovsky, Arch. exp. Path. u. Pharm.114, 39 (1926).
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Handovsky, H. Ein Sensibilisator der therapeutischen Digitaliswirkung. Experientia 2, 317–318 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02157059
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