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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrench hospital halts trials of Trump-promoted COVID-19 drug due to worries about heart failure
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President Donald Trumps promotion of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 has drawn criticism from medical experts who say much more work needs to be done before anyone can say its effective at stopping the disease.
And now one hospital in France has stopped its testing of hydroxychloroquine on COVID-19 patients over worries that the drug poses a toxic risk to peoples hearts when taken in combination with other drugs.
French newspaper Nice Matin reports that Nice University Hospital immediately stopped its use of hydroxychloroquine in patients who exhibit major risks of suffering heart failure due to the drug.
When hydroxychloroquine is given on its own, the cardiac risk is very low, explained Émile Ferrari, the chief of the hospitals cardiology department. On the other hand, the antibiotic (azithromycin) which is systematically prescribed in combination with hydroxychloroquine in the anti-Covid protocol also favors these anomalies. The cardiological risk is then potentiated if there are other associated drugs which have the same undesirable effect.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/french-hospital-halts-trials-of-trump-promoted-covid-19-drug-due-to-worries-about-heart-failure/
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French hospital halts trials of Trump-promoted COVID-19 drug due to worries about heart failure (Original Post)
TheBlackAdder
Apr 2020
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malaise
(268,967 posts)1. Let the Con test it on himself
That is all
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)2. K&R!
monmouth4
(9,694 posts)3. Just hope he's taking it, for protection. Yeah, that's it, protection..n/t
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)4. Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine) have real potential
for causing potentially fatal arrhythmias in many patients.
hlthe2b
(102,236 posts)5. As did the Swiss earlier...