Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Complicated with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Case Report and Literature Review

Table 1

Case report about patients with SLE and HCM.

Cases	Age (years)	Gender	Symptom	Drugs	Diagnostic methods (HCM)	References
Asherson et al., 1992	51	Female	Palpitations, chest pain	Steroids, immunosuppressant, warfarin, antidepressant	Echocardiography	[18]
Asherson et al., 1992	45	Female	Palpitations, dyspnea	Propranolol, mexiletine, digoxin, amiodarone	Echocardiography	[18]
Ara et al., 1998	45	Female	Intermittent palpitations, grade II dyspnea, orthopnoea	Hydroxychloroquine	Echocardiography	[19]
Dongji and Yuan, 1998	35	Female	Chest distress, syncope	Hormone, β-blocker, calcium antagonist	Echocardiography	[20]
Anastasiadis et al., 2001	32	Female	Arthralgias, malar rush, intermittent palpitations membranoproliferative nephritis	N	Echocardiography	[21]
Anastasiadis et al., 2001	37	Female	Physical and laboratory findings similar to those found in case 1	N	Echocardiography	[21]
Anastasiadis et al., 2001	19	Male	Liver failure due to Budd-Chiari syndrome antiphospholipid syndrome	N	Echocardiography	[21]
Maezawa Linghua, 2002	23	Female	Palpitations	Steroid		[22]
Kotani et al., 2005	37	Female	Exertional chest pain nephrotic syndrome	Prednisolone, cyclophosphamide, mizoribine, β-blocker	Echocardiography, pathological biopsy	[23]
The present study	32	Female	Fever accompanied by abdominal pain and diarrhea	Cyclophosphamide, cyclosporin, methotrexate tacrolimus	Echocardiography, CMR

N: not mentioned in the article; CMR: cardiac magnetic resonance.