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  1. Article ; Online: Hydroxychloroquine use during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020.

    Mack, Heather G

    Australian journal of general practice

    2020  Volume 49

    Abstract: ... for the prophylaxis or treatment of COVID-19 infection. ... At present, there are no studies demonstrating the clinical efficacy of hydroxychloroquine ...

    Abstract At present, there are no studies demonstrating the clinical efficacy of hydroxychloroquine for the prophylaxis or treatment of COVID-19 infection.
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-04-14
    Publishing country Australia
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2924889-9
    ISSN 2208-7958 ; 2208-794X
    ISSN (online) 2208-7958
    ISSN 2208-794X
    DOI 10.31128/AJGP-COVID-08
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  2. Article: Hydroxychloroquine use during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020

    Mack, Heather G

    Aust. J. Gen. Pract

    Abstract: ... for the prophylaxis or treatment of COVID-19 infection. ... At present, there are no studies demonstrating the clinical efficacy of hydroxychloroquine ...

    Abstract At present, there are no studies demonstrating the clinical efficacy of hydroxychloroquine for the prophylaxis or treatment of COVID-19 infection.
    Keywords covid19
    Publisher WHO
    Document type Article
    Note WHO #Covidence: #32294807
    Database COVID19

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  3. Article ; Online: Bias in observational studies on the effectiveness of in hospital use of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19.

    Hempenius, Mirjam / Bots, Sophie H / Groenwold, Rolf H H / de Boer, Anthonius / Klungel, Olaf H / Gardarsdottir, Helga

    Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

    2023  Volume 32, Issue 9, Page(s) 1001–1011

    Abstract: ... for observational studies on the effectiveness of in-hospital use of HCQ in COVID-19 patients, published between 01 ... Synthesis of evidence of effectiveness of HCQ in COVID-19 should focus on RCTs and carefully consider ... Purpose: During the first waves of the coronavirus pandemic, evidence on potential effective ...

    Abstract Purpose: During the first waves of the coronavirus pandemic, evidence on potential effective treatments was urgently needed. Results from observational studies on the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) were conflicting, potentially due to biases. We aimed to assess the quality of observational studies on HCQ and its relation to effect sizes.
    Methods: PubMed was searched on 15 March 2021 for observational studies on the effectiveness of in-hospital use of HCQ in COVID-19 patients, published between 01/01/2020 and 01/03/2021 on. Study quality was assessed using the ROBINS-I tool. Association between study quality and study characteristics (journal ranking, publication date, and time between submission and publication) and differences between effects sizes found in observational studies compared to those found in RCTs, were assessed using Spearman's correlation.
    Results: Eighteen of the 33 (55%) included observational studies were scored as critical risk of bias, eleven (33%) as serious risk and only four (12%) as moderate risk of bias. Biases were most often scored as critical in the domains related to selection of participants (n = 13, 39%) and bias due to confounding (n = 8, 24%). There were no significant associations found between the study quality and the characteristics nor between the study quality and the effect estimates.
    Discussion: Overall, the quality of observational HCQ studies was heterogeneous. Synthesis of evidence of effectiveness of HCQ in COVID-19 should focus on RCTs and carefully consider the added value and quality of observational evidence.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Bias ; COVID-19 ; COVID-19 Drug Treatment ; Hydroxychloroquine/therapeutic use ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Treatment Outcome ; Observational Studies as Topic
    Chemical Substances Hydroxychloroquine (4QWG6N8QKH)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-04-24
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1099748-9
    ISSN 1099-1557 ; 1053-8569
    ISSN (online) 1099-1557
    ISSN 1053-8569
    DOI 10.1002/pds.5632
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  4. Article ; Online: Incident Use of Hydroxychloroquine for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

    Mercadé-Besora, Núria / Guo, Yuchen / Du, Mike / Li, Xintong / Ramírez-Anguita, Juan Manuel / Moreno, Alberto / Valente, António / Villalobos, Felipe / Cheng, Iek Leng / Carrasco-Ribelles, Lucía A / van Swieten, Maaike M H / Merkelbach, Manon / Magoya, Mary / Lasalvia, Paolo / Pericàs-Pulido, Pau / Berg, Paul / Bosco-Lévy, Pauline / Lillini, Roberto / Ribeiro, Rogerio /
    Bagga, Trinamjot Kaur / Ramella, Vittoria / Khalid, Sara / Mayer, Miguel Angel / Leis, Angela / Jödicke, Annika M / Burn, Edward / Prieto-Alhambra, Daniel / Català, Martí / Prats-Uribe, Albert

    Arthritis care & research

    2024  

    Abstract: Objective: We studied whether the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID-19 resulted in supply ... period for COVID-19 treatment.: Conclusion: Use of HCQ increased dramatically ... to prepandemic rates after the first wave, use of HCQ remained high and followed waves of COVID-19 ...

    Abstract Objective: We studied whether the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID-19 resulted in supply shortages for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
    Methods: We used US claims data (IQVIA PHARMETRICS® Plus for Academics [PHARMETRICS]) and hospital electronic records from Spain (Institut Municipal d'Assistència Sanitària Information System [IMASIS]) to estimate monthly rates of HCQ use between January 2019 and March 2022, in the general population and in patients with RA and SLE. Methotrexate (MTX) use was estimated as a control.
    Results: More than 13.5 million individuals (13,311,811 PHARMETRICS, 207,646 IMASIS) were included in the general population cohort. RA and SLE cohorts enrolled 135,259 and 39,295 patients, respectively, in PHARMETRICS. Incidence of MTX and HCQ were stable before March 2020. On March 2020, the incidence of HCQ increased by 9- and 67-fold in PHARMETRICS and IMASIS, respectively, and decreased in May 2020. Usage rates of HCQ went back to prepandemic trends in Spain but remained high in the United States, mimicking waves of COVID-19. No significant changes in HCQ use were noted among patients with RA and SLE. MTX use rates decreased during HCQ approval period for COVID-19 treatment.
    Conclusion: Use of HCQ increased dramatically in the general population in both Spain and the United States during March and April 2020. Whereas Spain returned to prepandemic rates after the first wave, use of HCQ remained high and followed waves of COVID-19 in the United States. However, we found no evidence of general shortages in the use of HCQ for both RA and SLE in the United States.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-25
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 645059-3
    ISSN 2151-4658 ; 0893-7524 ; 2151-464X
    ISSN (online) 2151-4658
    ISSN 0893-7524 ; 2151-464X
    DOI 10.1002/acr.25331
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  5. Article ; Online: Hydroxychloroquine in dermatology and beyond

    Kabir Sardana / Surabhi Sinha / Soumya Sachdeva

    Indian Dermatology Online Journal, Vol 11, Iss 3, Pp 453-

    Recent update

    2020  Volume 464

    Abstract: ... worldwide during the ongoing coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Like its immunomodulatory ... Hydroxychloroquine is one of the most frequently used drugs in dermatology with a wide variety ... drug interactions, side effects, and its use in special populations is described. ...

    Abstract Hydroxychloroquine is one of the most frequently used drugs in dermatology with a wide variety of uses due to its immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, photoprotective, and metabolic actions and low side effect profile. Demonstration of its antiviral action in vitro has led to renewed interest by physicians worldwide during the ongoing coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Like its immunomodulatory action, its antiviral activity is also due to its ability to alkalinize the intracytoplasmic milieu, leading to disordered viral entry/fusion and deranged viral protein synthesis. However, randomized controlled trials are the need of the hour to conclusively determine its clinical efficacy in such infections. A review of the multitude of mechanisms of action, updated screening and monitoring guidelines, drug interactions, side effects, and its use in special populations is described.
    Keywords arrhythmias ; cardiotoxicity ; covid-19 ; dermatology ; hydroxychloroquine ; lupus ; mechanism ; retinopathy ; side effects ; uses ; RL1-803 ; covid19
    Subject code 610
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
    Document type Article ; Online
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  6. Article ; Online: Does Widespread Use of Hydroxychloroquine Reduce the Transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19? An Ecological Correlational Study.

    Souza Neves, Fabricio

    Infectious disorders drug targets

    2023  

    Abstract: Background: At the beginning of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, hydroxychloroquine ... in 2020 were assessed, before the start of COVID-19 vaccination. The daily values of the COVID-19 ... Furthermore, the mean derivative of Rt during the declining period of the COVID-19 incidence (the mean rate ...

    Abstract Background: At the beginning of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was widely used as a possible antiviral agent. Current knowledge indicates that HCQ has little or no effect on individual clinical outcomes of COVID-19, but populational effects on disease transmissibility are still unknown.
    Objective: This study investigates the hypothesis that massive HCQ consumption by a population may contribute to reducing the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 spread by reducing the viral load of infected individuals.
    Methods: Public database of seven states from Brazil in 2020 were assessed, before the start of COVID-19 vaccination. The daily values of the COVID-19 effective reproduction number (Rt) were obtained. Associations between Rt values and the proposed predictor variables (prevalence of COVID-19 as a marker of collective immunity; social isolation indices; consumption of HCQ) were tested using multiple linear regression analysis.
    Results: In all seven states, consumption of HCQ was a significant negative predictor of Rt (β ranged from -0.295 to -0.502, p = 0.001). Furthermore, the mean derivative of Rt during the declining period of the COVID-19 incidence (the mean rate of variation) was also significantly negatively related to the mean HCQ consumption in that period (R2 = 0.895; β = -0.783; p = 0.011), meaning that the higher the HCQ consumption, the faster the decline of COVID-19 Rt. It suggests a dose-response phenomenon and a causal relationship in this association.
    Conclusion: The results of this study are compatible with the hypothesis that HCQ has small but significant in vivo antiviral effects that are able to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility at the populational level.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-22
    Publishing country United Arab Emirates
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2234298-9
    ISSN 2212-3989 ; 1871-5265
    ISSN (online) 2212-3989
    ISSN 1871-5265
    DOI 10.2174/1871526523666230522114836
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  7. Article ; Online: Hydroxychloroquine shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Mendel, Arielle / Bernatsky, Sasha / Thorne, J Carter / Lacaille, Diane / Johnson, Sindhu R / Vinet, Évelyne

    Annals of the rheumatic diseases

    2020  Volume 80, Issue 3, Page(s) e31

    MeSH term(s) Antirheumatic Agents/therapeutic use ; COVID-19/drug therapy ; Humans ; Hydroxychloroquine/therapeutic use ; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic ; Pandemics ; SARS-CoV-2
    Chemical Substances Antirheumatic Agents ; Hydroxychloroquine (4QWG6N8QKH)
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-05-20
    Publishing country England
    Document type Letter ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 7090-7
    ISSN 1468-2060 ; 0003-4967
    ISSN (online) 1468-2060
    ISSN 0003-4967
    DOI 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217835
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  8. Article ; Online: Progress in the risk assessment of hydroxychloroquine in frail elderly people.

    Castagna, Alberto / Ruotolo, Giovanni / Manzo, Ciro

    Aging medicine (Milton (N.S.W))

    2020  Volume 4, Issue 1, Page(s) 53–57

    Abstract: ... because of its mechanism of action and the potential use it could have during the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, HCQ ... can cause QT interval prolongation. The current therapies used in COVID-19 are changing as the pandemic ... in multidimensional assessment of COVID-19 patients, especially in elderly and polypathological patients. ...

    Abstract Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is an antimalarial drug also known to have anti-inflammatory and antiviral effects. The antiviral action of HCQ has been a point of interest for many researchers because of its mechanism of action and the potential use it could have during the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, HCQ can cause QT interval prolongation. The current therapies used in COVID-19 are changing as the pandemic develops. The aim of this article is to promote a validated risk score for QT prolongation in multidimensional assessment of COVID-19 patients, especially in elderly and polypathological patients.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-12-25
    Publishing country Australia
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ISSN 2475-0360
    ISSN (online) 2475-0360
    DOI 10.1002/agm2.12140
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  9. Article: Hydroxychloroquine in Dermatology and Beyond: Recent Update

    Sardana, Kabir / Sinha, Surabhi / Sachdeva, Soumya

    Indian dermatology online journal

    Abstract: ... worldwide during the ongoing coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic Like its immunomodulatory ... Hydroxychloroquine is one of the most frequently used drugs in dermatology with a wide variety ... drug interactions, side effects, and its use in special populations is described ...

    Abstract Hydroxychloroquine is one of the most frequently used drugs in dermatology with a wide variety of uses due to its immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, photoprotective, and metabolic actions and low side effect profile Demonstration of its antiviral action in vitro has led to renewed interest by physicians worldwide during the ongoing coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic Like its immunomodulatory action, its antiviral activity is also due to its ability to alkalinize the intracytoplasmic milieu, leading to disordered viral entry/fusion and deranged viral protein synthesis However, randomized controlled trials are the need of the hour to conclusively determine its clinical efficacy in such infections A review of the multitude of mechanisms of action, updated screening and monitoring guidelines, drug interactions, side effects, and its use in special populations is described
    Keywords covid19
    Publisher WHO
    Document type Article
    Note WHO #Covidence: #665385
    Database COVID19

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  10. Article: Hydroxychloroquine availability during COVID-19 crisis and its effect on patient anxiety.

    Cornet, Alain / Andersen, Jeanette / Tani, Chiara / Mosca, Marta

    Lupus science & medicine

    2021  Volume 8, Issue 1

    Abstract: ... hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) shortage that occurred during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic.: Methods ... of anxiety (on a 0-10 scale) with regard to not being able to have access to HCQ, once in April 2020 (first ... responded during the first wave; 1001 (48.2%) could get HCQ from the first place they asked, 230 (11.1 ...

    Abstract Objective: To report the results of a survey exploring the experience of patients with SLE facing hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) shortage that occurred during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Methods: A survey was designed by Lupus Europe's patient advisory network and distributed through its social media, newsflash and members' network. People with lupus were asked about their last HCQ purchases and their level of anxiety (on a 0-10 scale) with regard to not being able to have access to HCQ, once in April 2020 (first wave) and after 11 August (second wave). The results were compared.
    Results: 2075 patients responded during the first wave; 1001 (48.2%) could get HCQ from the first place they asked, 230 (11.1%) could get the drug by going to more than one pharmacy, 498 (24.0%) obtained HCQ later from their usual pharmacy and 126 (6.1%) from other sources. 188 (9.1%) could not get any; 32 (1.5%) did not respond to this question. All countries showed significant improvement in HCQ availability during the second wave. 562 (27.4%) patients reported an extremely high level of anxiety in wave 1 and 162 (10.3%) patients in wave 2; 589 (28.7%) and 268 (17.1%) patients reported a high level of anxiety in wave 1 and wave 2, respectively.
    Conclusions: The HCQ shortage had a significant impact on patients with SLE and has been responsible for psychological consequences including anxiety. Indeed, despite an objective improvement in drug availability, the event is leaving significant traces in patients' mind and behaviours.
    MeSH term(s) Antirheumatic Agents/supply & distribution ; Antirheumatic Agents/therapeutic use ; Anxiety/diagnosis ; Anxiety/etiology ; COVID-19/drug therapy ; COVID-19/epidemiology ; Civil Defense/methods ; Civil Defense/standards ; Community Pharmacy Services/statistics & numerical data ; Europe/epidemiology ; Health Services Accessibility/standards ; Health Services Accessibility/statistics & numerical data ; Humans ; Hydroxychloroquine/supply & distribution ; Hydroxychloroquine/therapeutic use ; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/drug therapy ; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/epidemiology ; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/psychology ; Psychological Distress ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Self Report/statistics & numerical data ; Surveys and Questionnaires
    Chemical Substances Antirheumatic Agents ; Hydroxychloroquine (4QWG6N8QKH)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-06-08
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2779620-6
    ISSN 2053-8790
    ISSN 2053-8790
    DOI 10.1136/lupus-2021-000496
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