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Chloroquine in Covid 19- Beware of cardiac risk in unapproved indications

Dr. Kamal Kant KohliBy Dr. Kamal Kant KohliPublished On 2020-03-27T19:45:30+05:30  |  Updated On 2020-03-27T19:46:01+05:30
Chloroquine in Covid 19- Beware of cardiac risk in unapproved indications

NEW ORLEANS/ -- The current COVID-19 pandemic has impacted economic and social aspects of society around the globe.According to a letter published in BioScience Trends, Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in the treatment of COVID-19 associated pneumonia in clinical studies. Therefore the unapproved use of the antimalarial drug, chloroquine, has been touted as a treatment for COVID-19...

NEW ORLEANS/ -- The current COVID-19 pandemic has impacted economic and social aspects of society around the globe.According to a letter published in BioScience Trends, Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in the treatment of COVID-19 associated pneumonia in clinical studies.

Therefore the unapproved use of the antimalarial drug, chloroquine, has been touted as a treatment for COVID-19 with some reported deaths with its use in afflicted patients. Chloroquine- or hydroxychloroquine-related cardiac disorder is a rare but severe adverse event, which can lead to death. Clinicians should be warned that chloroquine- or hydroxychloroquine-related cardiac manifestations, even conduction disorders without repercussion, may be initial manifestations of toxicity, and are potentially irreversible.

Chloroquine has been used clinically for over 60 years and the side effect profile is well established.  A common and potentially life-threatening side effect is a change in the ECG and in particular to the QT interval.  The QT interval corresponds to the time period during which the heart relaxes and prolongation of the QT interval can be associated with life-threatening arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.  Because the QT interval is influenced by heart rate, it is most often given as the corrected QT interval or QTc. Continue Reading

Even therapeutic doses of chloroquine in healthy patients are associated with prolongation of QTc1, although this is generally well tolerated.  The concern with the current off-label use of chloroquine is that people with COVID-19 will self-medicate and take much more than the approved therapeutic dose used for treatment of malaria.  In fact, the WHO reported that most of the cases of life-threatening arrhythmias associated with chloroquine use occur when used to treat other indications2. In order to provide insight into the effects of various doses of chloroquine on QTc, we used our proprietary QT Fingerprintingâ„¢ model to predict the change in QTc at therapeutic doses and doses 2 to 22 times higher than therapeutic.  As seen in the plot, the predicted increase in QTc (8.8ms) was very close to the observed increase in QTc (6.1ms) at a therapeutic dose.  Doses 2-22 times higher were associated with predicted increases in QTc up to approximately 35ms.  While these increases in QTc may be well tolerated in healthy patients, the concern is for patients who have underlying cardiac disease, risk factors for QT prolongation, or are taking other drugs which prolong the QT interval.  This is why chloroquine has specific warnings in its labeling to inform of the potential danger in patients with underlying risk factors (cardiac disease, hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, bradycardia). The QTc prolonging effects of chloroquine will very likely be much greater and life-threatening in patients who take more than the prescribed dose and have existing risk factors.  Caution should be exercised by government leaders and the public in assuming chloroquine is either effective in treating COVID-19 or without significant side-effects.

For further reference log on to:

http://novreslab.com/

Chloroquine cardiac toxicity corona virus covid 19 
Source : Nova Research Laboratories
Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli
Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli

    Dr Kamal Kant Kohli-MBBS, DTCD- a chest specialist with more than 30 years of practice and a flair for writing clinical articles, Dr Kamal Kant Kohli joined Medical Dialogues as an Editor-in-Chief for the Speciality Medical Dialogues section. Besides writing articles, as an editor, he proofreads and verifies all the medical content published on Medical Dialogues including those coming from journals, studies,medical conferences,guidelines etc. Before Joining Medical Dialogues, he has served at important positions in the medical industry in India including as the Hony. Secretary of the Delhi Medical Association as well as the chairman of Anti-Quackery Committee in Delhi and worked with other Medical Councils in India. Email: editorial@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751

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