Hydroxychloroquine-Induced Myopathy Responding to Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG)
Hani Almoallim,
Alaa Samkari,
Ahmad Fallata
et al.
Abstract:Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), a drug used to treat many diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), has limited reports documenting drug-induced myopathies as a side effect. This entity is underdiagnosed with unclear treatment interventions apart from discontinuing the offending drug. We report a case of a biopsy-proven hydroxychloroquine-induced myopathy in a 35-year-old female patient with SLE. The offending drug was stopped, but the patient did not improve. However, she sh… Show more
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