Posted on 04/08/2020 8:47:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A hospital in France has had to stop an experimental treatment using hydroxychloroquine on at least one coronavirus patient after it became a "major risk" to their cardiac health.
The University Hospital Center of Nice (CHU de Nice) is one of many hospitals trialing hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients. It announced it had been selected for the trial on March 22. A statement from the hospital said it was testing four experimental treatments, one of which included hydroxychloroquine. It hoped to establish its effectiveness and side effects of this and the other treatments being tested.
In an interview with the French daily newspaper Nice-Matin, Professor Émile Ferrari, the head of the cardiology department at the Pasteur hospital in Nice, said the side effects had already been identified, with some patients having to stop treatment because of the risk posed.
He said electrocardiogram recordings of patients involved with the trial were being constantly monitored. An ECG measures electrical activity in the heart, and represents this on a graph as a QT interval. Ferrari said these recordings are interpreted and, if anomalies are reported, treatment is stopped.
Asked if this had happened yet, he said: "Yes, from the start of the trial. Thanks to this ECG follow-up, we highlighted the major risks of a very serious accident in a patient, and the treatment was immediately stopped."
The potential cardiac side effects of hydroxychloroquine were highlighted by the Mayo Clinic at the end of March. An article on its website said the drug has potential to lead to sudden cardiac death in some patients. In a small number of patients it has the potential to lead to prolonged QTc , which can result in an abnormal heart rhythm.
Hydroxychloroquine, Mayo Clinic said, blocks one of the channels that controls the heart's electrical recharging systems.
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The Swedes scrapped their trial.
It’s not so much HQC or Z-Pak, but the combination. Separately, each can cause prolonged QT, but are relatively safe. Together, they can be more of a problem.
Several people who were saved by the combination described feeling like their heart was going to explode. Might be low risk for a healthy person, but maybe not for someone with even minor cardiac issues. I would think careful evaluation and an EKG could eliminate those most at risk, but since these drugs are not normally used together, we might not fully understand the risk.
Can’t. I haven’t seen it published anywhere. But, You might find it on Dr. Oz’s website. I haven’t looked there myself.
But, I heard about this on the Mike Gallagher program and on the Hannity Radio program and, his Fox TV Program. Hannity interviewed Dr. Oz on both of his shows as did Mike Gallagher and it was on those shows that the letter from that Cedar-Sinai Rhuemotologist to the FDA was discussed.
I agree.
Dr. Raoult is up to 2187 patients on hydroxychloroquine ± azithromycin.
"In a small number of patients."
Orange Man Bad!
I’m surprised Newsweek didn’t lead with “TRUMP DRUG CAUSES HEART DAMAGE IN MAJOR STUDY’ or something equally demonstrative of their deep concern for the working man. /s
Thank you. In my opinion, there are Two forces at work here against HCQ. 1) TDS, because President Trump mentioned its promise as a remedy very early on. 2) Big Pharma, because HCQ has been around for 65 years and is dirt cheap. There’s no money to be made with HCQ as a remedy.
Notice, all the attention that newly developed drugs such as Remdesivir (sp?) are getting by the MSM. The promotion of New Drugs to combat this is being given major attention while the dirt-cheap 65-year-old HCQ is being trashed.
As the saying goes, “Follow the Money”!!!
Got to applaud the lamestream medias ongoing attempt to downplay chloroquine, gg. /s
There are side effects FOR SPECIFIC KINDS OF PATIENTS, as all drugs do.
The combination of Hydroxychloroquine and azythromycin can cause an extended q wave in some patients who have a longer wave to begin with. A study has shown that substituting Doxycycline in place of the azithromycin achieves the same effect without extending the q wave.
There are several posts exactly like this tonight and they are all from Newsweak. Predictable.
At least it’s not anecdotal.
This can be a problem with the combination of hydroxycloroquine and azythromycin. Substituting Doxycycline for the azythromycin achieves the same curative effect without affecting the EKG.
Doctor with thousands of Lupus patients taking HCQ and he said he has given no EKG’s.
It is caused by the combination of hydroxycloroquine and azythromycin. Substituting doxycycline achieves the same affect without affecting the EKG.
I would suspect that a patient had a seizure or cardiac arythmia and the doctors halted the HCQ treatment.
Newsweek as the beggar they are, was paid to sensationalize it so that the narrative will build against a drug that is older than most people alive today and which will stop the Medical Martial Law that globalists are waging against Trump and America..
Caused by the combo of hydroxychloroquine and azythromycin extending the q wave of the EKG. Substitute Doxycyclin for azythromycin and get the same curative effect without affecting the EKG.
What is the well known side effect?
The combo of hydroxycloroquine and azythromycin can cause an extended q wave in the EKG. A doctor has already shown that substituting doxycyline achieves the cure without the side effect.
The Partisan Media Shill who regurg'ed the DNC talking poin had to look a really long time to find one, or maybe she just made it up.
Partisan Media Shills update.
Thank you. It’s been posoted before (maybe you?) that with some patients Doxycyclin must be used instead of Azithromycin.
This is the most probable reason the treatment of this patient was halted. And the halt was likely temporary for the reasons you stated.
prolonged QT syndrome is rare: and caused by other drugs. one reason not to give it to mild cases, but for moderate to severe cases, just do a quick ekg and measure the 1t segment.
it was widely used in World War II since it was more effective than atabrine and didn’t have the side effects of quinine.
https://ww2medicalinnovations.wordpress.com/tag/atabrine/
I mean, it’s not like its’ a brand new drug.
I think you are correct. What we are not told here....is if this one guy had other conditions (diabetes, HIV, liver ailments, alcoholism, etc).
Wow! One patient?
Anecdotal
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