New American Heart Association Study: Clinically Suspected Myocarditis Temporally Related to COVID-19 Vaccination in Adolescents and Young Adults
Of the suspected myocarditis cases:
- All patients had elevated troponin T (N=28, 0.61 ng/mL, IQR 0.25-1.30)
> Normal range: below 0.04 ng/ml
> Probable heart attack: above 0.40 ng/ml
- 77.3% had abnormal cMRI’s
- 69.8% had abnormal ECG’s and/or arrhythmias
- 18.7% admitted to ICU
- 18.7% had left ventricular ejection fraction (reduced pumping function)
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.056583
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