Drug details

Sirturo (bedaquiline tablets)

type of Antitubercular Agents

Sirturo (bedaquiline) is a a diarylquinoline antimycobacterial drug used to treat adults with pulmonary multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) when other alternatives are not available. Sirturo is the first drug approved to treat multi-drug resistant TB and should be used in combination with other drugs used to treat TB.

This drug may have the following side effects:

• hives,
• difficulty breathing,
• swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat,
• loss of appetite,
• dark urine,
• clay-colored stools, and
• yellowing of the skin or eyes (jaundice)
• shortness of breath,
• tiredness,
• chest pain,
• fluttering in your chest,
• stomach pain (upper right side),
• coughing up blood,
• vomit that looks like coffee grounds,
• fast or pounding heartbeats,
• sudden dizziness,