ALLMedicine™ Myocarditis Center

May 17th, 2021 - We present 2 relevant cases of eosinophilic myocarditis (EM) in patients that presented with cardiogenic shock, one of whom received a durable ventricular assist device followed by heart transplantation, with the diagnosis of EM being made based o...

May 17th, 2021 - Clozapine use is associated with myocarditis. In this study, we investigated what clinical signs and symptoms, and/or laboratory test(s), alert clinicians to presumptive myocarditis (PrMy) most accurately and at the earliest time point. We also in...

May 15th, 2021 - BACKGROUND Clozapine, a second-generation antipsychotic, is often prescribed for refractory schizophrenia; however, it can cause life-threatening adverse events including agranulocytosis and myocarditis. Making the diagnosis of clozapine-induced m...

May 13th, 2021 - Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a rare syndrome temporally related to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). MIS-C shares similarities with Kawasaki disease, but left ventricular dysfunction is more ...

May 13th, 2021 - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been the cause of significant global morbidity and mortality. Here, we review the literature to date of the short-term and long-term consequences of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-...

Dec 11th, 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 ...

Jun 12th, 2019 - Myocarditis after the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors is a potentially fatal complication. Immune suppression with glucocorticoids is often effective once the problem is identified. In a patient with glucocorticoid-refractory disease, use of a...

Aug 9th, 2017 - Sudden death in young competitive athletes can be avoided by implementation of pre-participation screening programmes. A screening programme should be performed only by trained physicians and should include the athlete's personal and family histor...

Mar 5th, 2016 - Heart failure is a serious complication that can occur in patients with a variety of congenital and acquired disorders including congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathy, and myocarditis. Furthermore, heart failure patients comprise an increasing ...

Mar 5th, 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...

May 17th, 2021 - We present 2 relevant cases of eosinophilic myocarditis (EM) in patients that presented with cardiogenic shock, one of whom received a durable ventricular assist device followed by heart transplantation, with the diagnosis of EM being made based o...

May 17th, 2021 - Clozapine use is associated with myocarditis. In this study, we investigated what clinical signs and symptoms, and/or laboratory test(s), alert clinicians to presumptive myocarditis (PrMy) most accurately and at the earliest time point. We also in...

May 15th, 2021 - BACKGROUND Clozapine, a second-generation antipsychotic, is often prescribed for refractory schizophrenia; however, it can cause life-threatening adverse events including agranulocytosis and myocarditis. Making the diagnosis of clozapine-induced m...

May 13th, 2021 - Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a rare syndrome temporally related to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). MIS-C shares similarities with Kawasaki disease, but left ventricular dysfunction is more ...

May 13th, 2021 - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been the cause of significant global morbidity and mortality. Here, we review the literature to date of the short-term and long-term consequences of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-...

Apr 27th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not seen a link between heart inflammation and COVID-19 vaccines, CDC director Rochelle Walensky said on Tuesday. "We have not seen a signal and we've actually looked int...

Apr 26th, 2021 - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Health Ministry said on Sunday it is examining a small number of cases of heart inflammation in people who had received Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, though it has not yet drawn any conclusions. Pfizer said it has not o...

Mar 22nd, 2021 - (Reuters) - The coronavirus variant first identified in the UK, known as B.1.1.7, has been linked to severe cases of heart disease in pets who appear to have caught the infections from their humans, veterinarians near London report. The original s...

Feb 22nd, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. About half of 148 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 infection and elevated troponin levels had at least some evidence of myocardial injury on ca...

Jan 24th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Two recent observational studies suggest that myocarditis, at least on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging, might be far less common in elite...