Do you continue hydroxychloroquine in lupus patients who develop cardiomyopathy?  

The short answer is yes, in that most lupus patients with cardiomyopathy do not have hydroxychloroquine drug induced cardiac injury. That is to say most of these patients either have ischemic cardiomyopathy or non-drug NICM. With that said, antimalarials can produce adverse effects both on the cardi...