Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Facts, fiction and the hype: a critical appraisal

MS Khuroo - International journal of antimicrobial agents, 2020 - Elsevier
… , chloroquine and hydroxychloroquinehydroxychloroquine is the cornerstone in the treatment
of several auto-immune disorders. There is convincing evidence that hydroxychloroquine

[HTML][HTML] Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

A Elavarasi, M Prasad, T Seth, RK Sahoo… - Journal of general …, 2020 - Springer
Critical appraisal of the evidence was done by Cochrane risk of bias tool and Newcastle
Ottawa Scale. The quality of evidence was graded as per the GRADE approach. …

A systematic review of the prophylactic role of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in coronavirus disease‐19 (COVID‐19)

S Shah, S Das, A Jain, DP Misra… - International journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… Table 1 enumerates the findings of the in vitro pre-clinical studies and Table 2 denotes
the critical appraisal of the clinical opinions. The pre-clinical studies showed the prophylactic …

[HTML][HTML] Hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19: A critical appraisal of the existing evidence

K Tselios, P Skendros - European Journal of Rheumatology, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine (… chloroquine to inhibit the replication of SARS-CoV-2
in Vero E6 cells culture by approximately 80% (7). HCQ, a less toxic derivative of chloroquine

Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for treatment or prophylaxis of COVID-19: a living systematic review

AV Hernandez, YM Roman, V Pasupuleti… - Annals of internal …, 2020 - acpjournals.org
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine were among the first drugs considered for treatment
of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (1). Both have demonstrated in vitro antiviral efficacy …

Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for COVID-19 infection. Rapid systematic review

RL Pacheco, R Riera - Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare, 2020 - bahiana.edu.br
… As implication for practice, this review did not find sufficient evidence to support the use of
hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine as a routine for treating all patients with COVID-19, neither …

[HTML][HTML] Chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, and COVID-19: Systematic review and narrative synthesis of efficacy and safety

M Takla, K Jeevaratnam - Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
… Of particular interest are chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). The aims of this
systematic review are to systematically identify and collate 24 studies describing the use of …

[HTML][HTML] An umbrella review of systematic reviews with meta-analyses evaluating positive and negative outcomes of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine therapy

S Celotto, N Veronese, M Barbagallo, F Ometto… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND & AIMS Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and chloroquine (CQ) are anti-malarial
drugs frequently used in the rheumatologic field. They were recently identified as potential …

A complementary critical appraisal on systematic reviews regarding the most efficient therapeutic strategies for the current COVID‐19 (SARS‐CoV‐2) pandemic

D Kheirabadi, F Haddad… - Journal of medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… Increasing number of clinical trials from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed
that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are not only profitable but also deleterious. …

[HTML][HTML] Use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in COVID-19: How good is the quality of randomized controlled trials?

F Mazhar, MA Hadi, CS Kow, AMN Marran… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives We critically evaluated the quality of evidence and quality of harm reporting in
clinical trials that evaluated the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) or chloroquine (CQ) …