The Effects of Hydroxychloroquine in Patients with Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy

Summary

Evaluating the long-term therapeutic effects and safety of hydroxychloroquine(compared to glucocorticoid therapy alone) in patients with inflammatory cardiomyopathy--a multicenter randomized controlled study

Timeline

Start

2021-11-01

Primary completion

2024-09-01

Completion

2025-11-01

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Met primary endpoint

paper Compared to PDN monotherapy, HCQ combined with PDN therapy reduced the primary composite outcome [hazard ratio (HR) = 0.28, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.11-0.71] PMID 40781621 ↗

Publications

• Background He W, Zhou L, Xu K, Li H, Wang JJ, Chen C, Wang D. Immunopathogenesis and immunomodulatory therapy for myocarditis. Sci China Life Sci. 2023 Sep;66(9):2112-2137. doi: 10.1007/s11427-022-2273-3. Epub 2023 Mar 29.
• Background Ammirati E, Frigerio M, Adler ED, Basso C, Birnie DH, Brambatti M, Friedrich MG, Klingel K, Lehtonen J, Moslehi JJ, Pedrotti P, Rimoldi OE, Schultheiss HP, Tschope C, Cooper LT Jr, Camici PG. Management of Acute Myocarditis and Chronic Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy: An Expert Consensus Document. Circ Heart Fail. 2020 Nov;13(11):e007405. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.120.007405. Epub 2020 Nov 12.
• Background Hang W, Chen C, Seubert JM, Wang DW. Fulminant myocarditis: a comprehensive review from etiology to treatments and outcomes. Signal Transduct Target Ther. 2020 Dec 11;5(1):287. doi: 10.1038/s41392-020-00360-y.
• He W, Cui G, Chen J, Chen M, Li R, Wang L, Yu T, Li G, Jiang J, Wang DW. The efficacy and safety of hydroxychloroquine in patients with chronic inflammatory cardiomyopathy: a multicenter randomized study (HYPIC trial). BMC Med. 2025 Aug 8;23(1):467. doi: 10.1186/s12916-025-04301-w.

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