Digitek

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Digitek

Digitek was developed to treat a variety of heart conditions such as atrial fibrillation and heart failure that was not treatable with other medications. The drug was manufactured by the Actavis Totowa Company, formerly known as Amide Pharmaceutical Inc.

The way that Digitex treats these heart conditions is by strengthening the heart beats by increasing calcium to the cells of the heart. However, there were batches of the drug that were sold and manufactured through Bertek and UDL Laboratories that contained twice the level of Digoxin.The defective pills could cause some severe side effects including digitalis toxicity.

In April 2008, the FDA called for a Class 1 recall that means it could cause serious health issues as well as the possibility of death. The company said it had received eleven reports of patients that had experienced side effects from taking Digitek so the risk could actually have gone back more than two years before the recall.

Anyone who took the defective version of Digitek could experience urine difficulties both in not being able to urinate or having to urinate excessively as well as digoxin toxicity. Symptoms of digoxin toxicity are an irregular heartbeat, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and extremely low blood pressure. In patients who were already suffering from renal failure, digoxin toxicity could result in death.

By November of 2008, the U.S. Attorney's Office along with the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Actavis and demanded that the company's three plants be closed because of repeated violations against FDA regulations. Actavis habitually failed FDA inspections and did not do anything to improve conditions at any of the plant locations. The company was found to have kept incomplete lab records of its tests and never took further actions regarding the test results.

A few months after the Digitek recall, Actavis recalled every drug that was manufactured at the New Jersey plant where the defective Digitek pills were produced. As a result of the negligent practices of this company there are many class action suits in progress. Actavis knowingly produced medications that were not closely monitored for quality control and continued to produce these medications after learning of side effects from some patients who took them.

If you, someone in your family or anyone you know used the drug Digitek or any other drug manufactured by Actavis and suffered from any serious side effects please contact us here at Napoli Bern Ripka Law Firm. You may be eligible for compensation through any number of class action suits against the makers of this drug.

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