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Case Reports
. 2022 May;42(4):736-737.
doi: 10.1007/s10875-022-01228-2. Epub 2022 Feb 17.

First Identified Case of Fatal Fulminant Eosinophilic Myocarditis Following the Initial Dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine (BNT162b2, Comirnaty): an Extremely Rare Idiosyncratic Necrotizing Hypersensitivity Reaction Different to Hypersensitivity or Drug-Induced Myocarditis

Nicholas G Kounis  1 , Ioanna Koniari  2 , Virginia Mplani  3 , Panagiotis Plotas  4 , Grigorios Tsigkas  4
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Case Reports

First Identified Case of Fatal Fulminant Eosinophilic Myocarditis Following the Initial Dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine (BNT162b2, Comirnaty): an Extremely Rare Idiosyncratic Necrotizing Hypersensitivity Reaction Different to Hypersensitivity or Drug-Induced Myocarditis

Nicholas G Kounis et al. J Clin Immunol. 2022 May.
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