Drug-induced myopathies.

Drug myopathies are frequent and their identification important because of their potential morbidity. Apart from statins, the drugs most often involved are glucocorticoids, antimalarials, colchicine, and antiretrovirals. These myopathies are largely preventable, particularly those that occur in combinations of treatments or in the presence of comorbidities. Their relatively specific presentation often makes it possible to approach the diagnosis and to target the possible molecule to be interrupted. In general, they are spontaneously and rapidly reversible upon discontinuation of the drug, with the exception of statin-induced autoimmune necrotizing myopathy ; however, the latter is reversible under immunosuppressants, when initiated early enough.