ALLMedicine™ Myocarditis Center

Jul 31st, 2021 - Arrhythmic risk management after acute myocarditis - never too early, only too late.|2021|Strachinaru M,Nijveldt R,Vernooy K,|

Jul 31st, 2021 - Here, we present the case of an 81-year-old male patient, who was hospitalized for a severe form of COVID-19. Transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) performed 1 month after symptom onset was normal. Respiratory evolution was favourable, and the patien...

Jul 31st, 2021 - Giant cell myocarditis (GCM) is a rare condition. Its association with SARS-CoV-2 has not been described before. The 46-year-old female patient was admitted to the clinic on September 2020. She had 7 year adrenal insufficiency history and infarct-...

Jul 30th, 2021 - A 47-year-old man, positive for SARS-CoV-2, was diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) complicated by myocarditis on a background of COVID-19 pneumonia. He was medically treated for ACS; however, 3 days into his admission, the patient develo...

Jul 29th, 2021 - A 51-year-old woman presented with a 2-week history of off balance, left lower limb weakness and neglect and neck pain radiating down the right arm. Investigations revealed a metastatic, ROS1 fusion-positive, non-small cell lung cancer, and treatm...

Dec 12th, 2020 - As our understanding of the complications of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) evolve, subclinical cardiac pathology such as myocarditis, pericarditis, and right ventricular dysfunction in the absence of significant clinical symptoms represents ...

Apr 25th, 2020 - The worldwide pandemic caused by the novel acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has resulted in a new and lethal disease termed coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Although there is an association between cardiovascular disease and COVID-19, ...

Apr 21st, 2020 - Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)-associated viral infection (coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19) is a virulent, contagious viral pandemic that is affecting populations worldwide. As with any airborne viral r...

Mar 6th, 2016 - In this Consensus Statement, we review the etiology and pathophysiology of inflammatory processes seen in critically ill children with cardiac disease. Immunomodulatory therapies aimed at improving outcomes in patients with myocarditis, heart fail...

Feb 11th, 2015 - This guideline reviews the evidence relating to the effects of parvovirus B19 on the pregnant woman and fetus, and discusses the management of women who are exposed to, who are at risk of developing, or who develop parvovirus B19 infection in preg...

Mar 12th, 2020 - This is a retrospective cohort study to assess the clinical outcome of patients with fulminant myocarditis using "Life-support Based Comprehensive Treatment Regimen" and conventional therapy. In the present study, participants receive various trea...

Feb 20th, 2020 - Introduction: It is estimated that > 200 million patients in the world undergo surgery each year of which approximately 10 million would suffer from a myocardial injury in the perioperative period. Mortality is high in this group of patients since...

Nov 1st, 2019 - The potency of new immunosuppressive agents has reduced the risk of the body's immune system rejecting a transplanted kidney. However, this has come with a price. Kidney transplant recipients now face a higher risk of serious infections and relate...

Oct 18th, 2019 - The place of checkpoint inhibitors (anti-PD-1 and PD-L-1) is currently validated in the management of melanoma and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. The toxicity profile is specific with adverse effects related to immunity. Some side effects ...

Aug 5th, 2019 - Myocarditis or inflammatory cardiomyopathy refers to inflammation of the myocardium. Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disorder of unknown etiology, which can result in myocardial inflammation. Approximately 5% of patients with sarcoidosi...

Jul 12th, 2021 - GENEVA (Reuters) - The benefits of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the very small risk they might cause heart inflammation, as the jabs reduce hospitalisations and deaths, an advisory panel of the World Health Organization said on Friday. In a sta...

Jul 6th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Left ventricular (LV) deformation assessed by echocardiographic strain measurements identified children with myocarditis at risk for developing arrhythmias and cardiac failure in a single center, retrospective study. "S...

Jul 1st, 2021 - (Reuters) - Canada's health regulator said on Wednesday it had added a warning to the literature accompanying the COVID-19 vaccine shots from Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc to flag reports of a rare risk of heart inflammation after their use. The U.S....

Jul 1st, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. For the first half of 2021, the mRNA vaccines looked to be near perfect. The trials reported more than 90% efficacy for the Pfizer and Moderna vac...

Jun 30th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Further details from multiple cases of myocarditis linked to the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID vaccines have been described in recent papers in th...