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Ibrutinib: increased risk of sudden death

 Adverse Effects  Data from clinical trials show a 5-fold greater risk of sudden or cardiac death with ibrutinib than with comparators.

In late 2022, the company which markets ibrutinib reported that "assessment of data from the randomised clinical trials pool of ibrutinib" showed that the crude incidence of sudden or cardiac death was approximately 5 times higher in patients taking ibrutinib (5 cardiac deaths per 1000 patients) than in other groups (1 death per 1000)...

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Source: "Ibrutinib: increased risk of sudden death" Prescrire International 2023; 32 (247): 104-105. Subscribers only.

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