Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle (also called myocardium). Researchers think that it affects 1.5 million people around the world each year. This means that 1 or 2 out of every ...

Can a COVID-19 Infection Cause Myocarditis? Research released in August 2024 reports that COVID-19 infection can cause myocarditis and that this myocarditis is more likely to cause long-term ...

Soon after the first COVID-19 vaccines appeared in 2021, reports of rare cases of heart inflammation, or myocarditis, began to surface. Studies have largely confirmed that the overall myocarditis ...

Infectious disease experts have been investigating the risk of myocarditis since the beginning of the pandemic. Thousands of studies have been published on COVID, and some have found a connection ...

A Feb. 5 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) includes a chart detailing myocarditis cases in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden from 2018 to 2022. "Breaking: New paper published in BMJ ...

Miller was rushed to Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, where he was diagnosed with myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, and pericarditis, an inflammation of the outer lining of the ...

Multiple studies have shown that in rare cases, teen and young adult males have developed myocarditis after getting the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine — and now new research published in the ...

Early hypotheses as to what was driving the heart inflammation, called myocarditis, included an allergic response to the vaccine, vaccine-induced antibodies, or an autoimmune response in which the ...