Idelalisib

Indications and Usage

Idelalisib is FDA approved to treat patients with relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), in combination with rituximab, in patients for whom rituximab alone would be considered appropriate therapy due to other co-morbidities.

Side effects needing medical attention

Diarrhea, fever, fatigue, nausea, cough, pneumonia, abdominal pain, chills, rash, neutropenia, hypertriglyceridemia, hyperglycemia, ALT elevations, and AST elevations.

Idelalisib is being approved with a Boxed Warning alerting patients and healthcare professionals of the following fatal and serious adverse reactions: hepatotoxicity (liver damage caused by a drug), severe diarrhea or colitis, pneumonitis, and intestinal perforation.