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Case Reports
. 2021 Oct 19:2021:6806500.
doi: 10.1155/2021/6806500. eCollection 2021.

Myocarditis in the Setting of Recent COVID-19 Vaccination

Laura Onderko  1 , Benjamin Starobin  1 , Amy E Riviere  1 , Patrick K Hohl  1 , Colin T Phillips  1 , Roisin B Morgan  1 , Aimee Welsh  1 , Sanjeev A Francis  1 , Maxwell Eyram Afari  1
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Myocarditis in the Setting of Recent COVID-19 Vaccination

Laura Onderko et al. Case Rep Cardiol. .

Abstract

We report three patients who presented with chest pain after receiving either the BNT162b2 Pfizer/BioNTech or mRNA-1273 Moderna/NIH vaccine. Clinical presentation, biomarker, and cardiac MRI supported myocarditis. It is imperative that potential side effects of COVID-19 vaccine are reported to improve our knowledge about COVID-19 and mRNA vaccines.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Cardiac MRI of patient C: (a) T2 map demonstrating increased T2 signal consistent with edema in epicardium of the apical lateral wall; (b) four-chamber view showing late gadolinium enhancement in the apical lateral wall; (c) ECV map showing increased signal consistent with edema in the midanterolateral segments; (d) short axis with late gadolinium enhancements in the midanterolateral segments.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Patient D cardiac MRI: (a) T2 map demonstrating increased T2 signal consistent with edema in the epicardium of the apical lateral wall; (b–d) 3-chamber, 4-chamber, and apical short axis delayed images, respectively, demonstrating epicardial late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) corresponding to area of edema on T2 map.
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