ArticleJournal of Korean medical science2021
Myocarditis-induced Sudden Death after BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination in Korea: Case Report Focusing on Histopathological Findings.
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- Autopsy findings in cases of fatal COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis.ESC heart failure · 2025Pooled it
- Myocarditis and coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination: A systematic review and meta-summary of cases.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2023Pooled it
- Myocarditis after COVID-19 mRNA vaccination: A systematic review of case reports and case series.Clinical cardiology · 2022Pooled it
- Myocarditis Following COVID-19 Vaccination: A Systematic Review (October 2020-October 2021).Heart, lung & circulation · 2022Pooled it
- Beyond correlation and causation: epistemic caution, anomalous findings, and COVID-19 vaccine safety.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2026Review
- Quantitative Cardiac MRI in COVID-19 Vaccine-Related Versus Other Types of Myocarditis: A Korean Multicenter Study.Journal of Korean medical science · 2026Article
- Letter to the Editor Regarding "Serum Troponin I Assessments in 5- to 30-Year-Olds After BNT162b2 Vaccination" by Albertson et al. 2024.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2025Article
- Altered Circulating Cytokine Profile Among mRNA-Vaccinated Young Adults: A Year-Long Follow-Up Study.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2025Article
- Factors associated with carditis adverse events following SARS-COV-2-19 vaccination.Epidemiology and infection · 2025Article
- Toxicologic Pathology Forum: mRNA Vaccine Safety-Separating Fact From Fiction.Toxicologic pathology · 2024Article
- Ischemic and Inflammatory Ocular Adverse Events Following Different Types of Vaccination for COVID-19 and Their Incidence Analysis.Korean journal of ophthalmology : KJO · 2024Article
- Cardiac and Neurological Complications Post COVID-19 Vaccination: A Systematic Review of Case Reports and Case Series.Vaccines · 2024Review
- An Update on Myocarditis in Forensic Pathology.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Fulminant Myocarditis Temporally Associated with COVID-19 Vaccination.Current cardiology reports · 2024Review
- COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities.Journal of medical ethics · 2024Article
- The mRNA-LNP vaccines - the good, the bad and the ugly?Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
- Lessons Learnt from Case Series of Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest and Unexpected Death after COVID-19 Vaccination.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2023Article
- COVID-19 vaccination-related myocarditis: a Korean nationwide study.European heart journal · 2023Article
- Arrhythmias after COVID-19 Vaccination: Have We Left All Stones Unturned?International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Delayed presentation of biopsy-proven eosinophilic myocarditis following COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.Global cardiology science & practice · 2023Article
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Abstract
We present autopsy findings of a 22-year-old man who developed chest pain 5 days after the first dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine and died 7 hours later. Histological examination of the heart revealed isolated atrial myocarditis, with neutrophil and histiocyte predominance. Immunohistochemical C4d staining revealed scattered single-cell necrosis of myocytes which was not accompanied by inflammatory infiltrates. Extensive contraction band necrosis was observed in the atria and ventricles. There was no evidence of microthrombosis or infection in the heart and other organs. The primary cause of death was determined to be myocarditis, causally-associated with the BNT162b2 vaccine.
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