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. 2020 Sep 28;15(8):1389–1398. doi: 10.1007/s11739-020-02510-0

Table 2.

Side effects

Drug Side effect
Hydroxychloroquine Pruritus, anorexia, nausea, abdominal pain, blurring of vision, hypotension, QT prolongation -expectially in association with azithromycin, -hemolysis in G6PD-deficient, granulocytosis, anaphylactoid reaction, anaphylaxis, angioedema, alopecia, exfoliative dermatitis, ototoxicity, confusion, psychosis, seizures
Chloroquine Retinopathy, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness, blurred vision, QT prolongation
Azytromicin diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, severe QT prolongation, abdominal pain
Lopinavir/Ritonavir Prostration, anorexia, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, paresthesia, high level of AST, ALT, CK, pancreatitis, QT prolongation, headache, dyslipidemia, and taste alterations
Darunavir/cobicistat Abdominal pain, prostration, anorexia, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, rash, urticaria, Steven–Johnson syndrome, Drug Reaction with Eosynophilia and Systemic Symptoms, increased risk of bleeding in haemofiliac patients, reduction in eGFR (cobicistat), headhache, increase in liver enzymes, increase in fats levels, immune reconstitution syndrome
Remdesivir Diarrhea, increase liver enzymes blood levels
Favipavir Theratogenicity
Corticosteroids Osteoporosis, osteonecrosis, hypertension, diabetes, fluid retention, cataracts and glaucoma, gastritits and gastric ulcera, increase risk of superinfection, neuropsychiatric adverse effects
Monoclonal antibodies

Tociluzumab: increased serious infections, reactivation of latent tuberculosis, headache, hypertension, hepatitis

Eculizumab: hypertension, tachycardia, peripheral edema, hypotension, headache insomnia, fatigue, dizziness, skin rash, pruritus, hypokalemia, diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain, gastroenteritis, infection, life-threatening neisseria meningitides

Sarilumab increased serum alanine aminotransferase, increased serum aspartate aminotransferase. Infection. Decreased platelet count, leukopenia, neutropenia

Anakinra injection-site reaction, headache, vomiting, arthralgia, nasopharyngitis, nausea, fever, nausea, diarrhea, eosinophilia, decreased white blood cell count, change in platelet count