When Myocardial Injury in Lupus Is Not Lupus: Probable Antimalarial‐Associated Cardiomyopathy Mimicking Lupus Myocarditis
Diego Armando Pérez Covo, María Camila Bernal Beltrán, Diego Alejandro Ortega, Cristian Orlando Porras Bueno, Emilio José Juan Guardela, Carlos Hernán Calderón, Edward Andres Cáceres Méndez, Laura Valentina Omaña Álvarez, Alejandro Mariño Correa, Ángel Alberto García Peña · 2026
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Diego Armando Pérez Covo and co-authors report a case where heart damage in a lupus patient was likely caused by her medicine, not by lupus itself, in this 2026 paper. The patient, a woman in her fifties, had taken antimalarial drugs for a long time. She showed heart injury, weakness in both lower heart chambers, and faulty heart signals. Those signs can mimic lupus inflammation of the heart muscle.
Several clues pointed away from lupus: her disease was quiet and scans showed no swelling of the heart muscle. After the chloroquine was stopped, she improved and her heart's pumping strength came back. The authors urge doctors to weigh drug harm when lupus patients show heart injury, since the fix may be to stop a drug rather than add stronger immune treatment.
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| CREATOR | Diego Armando Pérez Covo, María Camila Bernal Beltrán, Diego Alejandro Ortega, Cristian Orlando Porras Bueno, Emilio José Juan Guardela, Carlos Hernán Calderón, Edward Andres Cáceres Méndez, Laura Valentina Omaña Álvarez, Alejandro Mariño Correa, Ángel Alberto García Peña |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |