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ArticleAcademic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine2021

Myopericarditis in a previously healthy adolescent male following COVID-19 vaccination: A case report.

Kelsey McLean, Tiffani J Johnson

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Article in Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kelsey McLeanDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0241-2140
Tiffani J JohnsonDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, California, USA.
University of California, Davis · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report the case of a previously healthy 16-year-old male who developed myopericarditis following the second dose of his Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, with no other identified triggers. Adolescents and young adults experiencing chest pain after COVD-19 vaccination should seek emergent medical care, and emergency providers should have a low threshold to consider and evaluate for myopericarditis. More data are needed to better understand the potential association between COVID-19 vaccines and myopericarditis. If a true causal link is identified, the risk must also be viewed in context with the millions of patients who have been safely vaccinated and the known morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 infection. As we see widespread vaccine rollout, it is important that all potential adverse reactions are reported as we continue to monitor for more rare but potentially serious side effects not identified in vaccination trials.

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COVID-19MyocarditisAdolescentCOVID-19 VaccinesHumansMaleSARS-CoV-2VaccinationYoung AdultCOVID-19 VaccinesCOVID-19myocarditis

Identifiers

PMID34133825
PMCPMC8441784
OpenAlexW3169731659

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