Serious Adverse Events Associated With Hydroxychloroquine Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic: Case Series and Literature Review

COVID-19 represents a global health crisis. Several studies are evaluating potential therapies including hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) which is given to patients based on limited observational evidence. However, it can cause serious adverse events. Moreover, recent studies showed no benefits due to HCQ....

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Autores principales: Abdelmaseih, Ramy, Abdelmasih, Randa, Hasan, Mustajab, Tadepalli, Srikanth, Patel, Jigar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7331778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32626630
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8415
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author Abdelmaseih, Ramy
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Hasan, Mustajab
Tadepalli, Srikanth
Patel, Jigar
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description COVID-19 represents a global health crisis. Several studies are evaluating potential therapies including hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) which is given to patients based on limited observational evidence. However, it can cause serious adverse events. Moreover, recent studies showed no benefits due to HCQ. We present two COVID-19 patients treated with HCQ and had adverse events.
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spelling pubmed-73317782020-07-02 Serious Adverse Events Associated With Hydroxychloroquine Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic: Case Series and Literature Review Abdelmaseih, Ramy Abdelmasih, Randa Hasan, Mustajab Tadepalli, Srikanth Patel, Jigar Cureus Cardiology COVID-19 represents a global health crisis. Several studies are evaluating potential therapies including hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) which is given to patients based on limited observational evidence. However, it can cause serious adverse events. Moreover, recent studies showed no benefits due to HCQ. We present two COVID-19 patients treated with HCQ and had adverse events. Cureus 2020-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7331778/ /pubmed/32626630 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8415 Text en Copyright © 2020, Abdelmaseih et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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