POTENTIAL RISK OF INVESTIGATED DRUGS FOR THE TREATMENT OF COVID-19: DRUGS INTERACTIONS
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Introduction: The coronavirus causes infections in lower respiratory tract and with preceding cases by the Coronavirus of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV) and by the virus of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV). It was aimed to investigate the potential interactions, of severe and moderate degrees, of the drugs tested in the treatment of COVID-19 with other drugs and with diseases. Outline: Characterizes itself as a documentary research that use the data base Drugs® for obtaining the cross information of the data banks with another drugs, according to articles of periodicals indexed in the great searchers PubMed, Science Direct and BVS. For the determination of the drug interaction, there were used only the data which had at least “good documentation” and only the interactions “expressly contraindicated”, “major” and “moderate”, the mild interactions were omitted. Results: The hydroxychloroquine and the chloroquine are associated with many drug interactions and with drugs, along to the azithromycin, which also has a high degree of risks. However, the nitazoxanide, the ivermectin and the oseltamivir are in the opposite direction, with small drug interactions and low risks to the treatment safety. The monoclonal antibodies and the antiretrovirals have balanced risk-benefit relation. Implications: Most of the currently investigated drugs in the treatment of COVID-19 show several drug interactions and interactions with pre-existing diseases.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26694/repis.v6i0.10829
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