COVID-19 significantly increased myocarditis-related mortality, particularly in non-White, older adults in non-metropolitan areas during 2020-2021. Heart failure mortality rates rose during the ...

Discover the link between COVID-19 vaccination and the increase in the risk of myocarditis, pericarditis, extrasystoles, and ...

Myocarditis and pericarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle or its surrounding tissue, respectively, are the main ...

Some patients being treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors, a type of cancer immunotherapy, develop a dangerous form of heart inflammation called myocarditis.

Updated COVID-19 vaccines targeting JN.1-lineage omicron variants of the coronavirus are now available in the U.S. for the ...

Researchers found reduced risks for cardiovascular events postvaccination for most of the studied outcomes, especially after dose 3, while the risks for myocarditis and pericarditis were increased 1 ...

A big strength of the study is the significant number of people examined, which enabled the researchers to assess the effects of the vaccines across a wide variety of demographics and clinical ...

Secondly, the virus can cause inflammation of the heart (known as myocarditis), which studies suggest affects one in eight people hospitalised with Covid. This is thought to be down to the virus ...

Updated COVID-19 vaccines targeting JN ... is inflammation of the heart muscle or its surrounding tissue, known as myocarditis and pericarditis, respectively. The conditions are rare, most ...

The UK Government has recommended offering a COVID-19 booster vaccination in autumn, 2024, to individuals at high risk of ...

The fly in the ointment was a case of myocarditis – inflammation of the heart muscle – that was seen in an 11-year-old boy enrolled in Study 9001-103 and was deemed to be serious. Treatment ...

Pulmonary artery catheterization showed evidence of mixed distributive and cardiogenic shock, so we treated her with inotropes and vasopressors. At this point, our diagnosis was fulminant myocarditis, ...