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. 2021 Sep;14(9):1862-1863.
doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2021.06.003. Epub 2021 Jun 16.

A Series of Patients With Myocarditis Following SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination With mRNA-1279 and BNT162b2

John B Dickey, Elisabeth Albert, Mai Badr, Kristin M Laraja, Laureen M Sena, David S Gerson, Jason E Saucedo, Waqas Qureshi, Gerard P Aurigemma
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A Series of Patients With Myocarditis Following SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination With mRNA-1279 and BNT162b2

John B Dickey et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021 Sep.
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Clinical Characteristics and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Patients Following SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination (Top) Clinical characteristics of patients with myocarditis following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. (Bottom) Cardiac magnetic resonance of myocarditis following vaccination. In each panel, T2-weighted sequences are on the left and late gadolinium (LGE) sequences are on the right. (A) Patient 1: short-axis and 4-chamber views demonstrating areas of increased T2 signal and LGE in the midwall of the lateral segments (arrowheads) in a patient who received their second SARS-CoV-2 vaccination 5 days earlier. (B) Patient 2: short-axis and 4-chamber views demonstrating increased T2 signal and LGE in the midwall and subepicardial layer throughout the left ventricle (arrowheads) in a patient who received their second SARS-CoV-2 vaccination 7 days earlier. (C) Patient 3: short-axis views demonstrating increased T2 signal and LGE in the mid wall and subepicardial layer of the mid-posterolateral segment (arrowheads) in a patient who received their second SARS-CoV-2 vaccination 6 days earlier. (D) Patient 6: 4-chamber view demonstrating areas of increased T2 signal and LGE in the subepicardial apical and apical lateral segments (arrowheads).
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