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In medicine (cardiology), myocarditis is inflammation of heart muscle (myocardium). It resembles a heart attack but coronary arteries are not blocked.

Study explores myopericarditis incidence and COVID-19 vaccination

Researchers investigated the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on the incidence of myopericarditis.

13 Apr 2022

Risk of myopericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination is very low, confirms study

The overall risk of myopericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination is very low, affecting 18 people per million vaccine doses. A new study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, confirms that this risk is comparable to or lower following COVID-19 vaccination than other non-COVID-19 vaccines.

13 Apr 2022

Heart complications uncommon for children and young adults after SARS-CoV-2 infection

Heart complications are uncommon, yet treatable for children and young adults after COVID-19 disease or SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association that details what has been learned about how to treat, manage and even prevent cardiovascular complications from the SARS-CoV-2 virus in youth.

12 Apr 2022

International study offers insight into occurrence of acute myocarditis during COVID-19 hospitalization

Acute myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle typically triggered by a virus, occurred in about two out of every 1,000 people hospitalized with COVID-19, and was associated with more severe illness and complications in people with COVID-19, especially among people who also had pneumonia, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association's flagship, peer-reviewed journal Circulation.

11 Apr 2022

Study explores incidence of cardiac impairment a year after SARS-CoV-2 infection

Researchers used cardiac magnetic resonance to show the one-year trajectory of cardiac impairment in long coronavirus disease patients.

6 Apr 2022

Study generates a picture of the myocardial transcriptional landscape of COVID-19

Researchers profiled cardiac tissue transcriptomes of COVID-19 patients.

5 Apr 2022

Risk of death from SARS-CoV-2 infection higher than after COVID vaccination

Researchers investigate the risk of death following vaccination as compared to SARS-CoV-2 infection.

28 Mar 2022

Study shows third dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 is both safe and effective

A research paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine has demonstrated how a third dose of Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT162b2) vaccine administered in a median period of 10.8 months after the second one bestowed 95.3% efficacy against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), in comparison with two doses of the same vaccine during a median follow-up of 2.5 months.

24 Mar 2022

U of A researcher receives $436,642 from NIH to study effects of SARS-COV-2 on the aortic valve

The National Institute of Health awarded $436,642 to associate professor of biomedical engineering, Kartik Balachandran, to study the downstream effects of acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 on the aortic valve.

24 Mar 2022

Study evaluates risk estimates of myocarditis and pericarditis from mRNA-1273 and BNT162b2 vaccines

A new study assesses whether the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis differs between the two mRNA vaccines.

23 Mar 2022

The effects of anti-SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibodies on pregnant and postpartum women

Researchers examine the safety and efficacy of mAbs in pregnant and postpartum women with COVID-19.

16 Mar 2022

New guidance addresses how student athletes can safely return to play after COVID-19 infection

Student athletes ages 14-25 who experience COVID-19 infections need not undergo diagnostic testing for myocarditis in the absence of cardiac symptoms, according to guidance published today by the American College of Cardiology.

16 Mar 2022

Study evaluates monoclonal antibody treatment for pregnant COVID-19 patients

Researchers evaluated COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment in pregnant and postpartum women.

16 Mar 2022

Can cardiac biomarkers determine COVID-19 prognosis?

Researchers review prognostic cardiac biomarkers in COVID-19 patients.

15 Mar 2022

Study finds chimeric mRNA induces potent and broadly acting neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants

Researchers explored strategies to develop an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine that could elicit safer and wider protection against SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern.

10 Mar 2022

Incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination

Researchers used a cohort design for the estimation of adjusted hazard ratios for hospitalized or fatal myocarditis/pericarditis following the first and second dose of BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 vaccines.

10 Mar 2022

Myocarditis and pericarditis in COVID-19 vaccine recipients

A new study provides valuable evidence towards this end, using surveillance data to provide the best estimates of these outcomes.

6 Mar 2022

When teens blow off parents’ pleas to get vaccinated, the consequences can be deadly

Kennedy Stonum, a high school junior, deflected repeated entreaties from her father to please just get vaccinated against covid-19.

4 Mar 2022

Case ascertainment of myocarditis following COVID-19 booster vaccine

Researchers from the US performed a time case surveillance of myopericarditis following COVID-19 booster vaccination in a cohort of health plan members of Kaiser Permanente Northwest Health System, Portland, Oregano.

17 Feb 2022

Cardiac MRI shows a similar injury pattern for vaccine-associated myocarditis

Vaccine-associated myocarditis shows a similar injury pattern on cardiac MRI compared to other causes of myocarditis, but abnormalities are less severe, according to a new study published in the journal Radiology.

15 Feb 2022

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Study explores myopericarditis incidence and COVID-19 vaccination

Risk of myopericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination is very low, confirms study

Heart complications uncommon for children and young adults after SARS-CoV-2 infection

International study offers insight into occurrence of acute myocarditis during COVID-19 hospitalization

Study explores incidence of cardiac impairment a year after SARS-CoV-2 infection

Study generates a picture of the myocardial transcriptional landscape of COVID-19

Risk of death from SARS-CoV-2 infection higher than after COVID vaccination

Study shows third dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 is both safe and effective

U of A researcher receives $436,642 from NIH to study effects of SARS-COV-2 on the aortic valve

Study evaluates risk estimates of myocarditis and pericarditis from mRNA-1273 and BNT162b2 vaccines

The effects of anti-SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibodies on pregnant and postpartum women

New guidance addresses how student athletes can safely return to play after COVID-19 infection

Study evaluates monoclonal antibody treatment for pregnant COVID-19 patients

Can cardiac biomarkers determine COVID-19 prognosis?

Study finds chimeric mRNA induces potent and broadly acting neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants

Incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination

Myocarditis and pericarditis in COVID-19 vaccine recipients

When teens blow off parents’ pleas to get vaccinated, the consequences can be deadly

Case ascertainment of myocarditis following COVID-19 booster vaccine

Cardiac MRI shows a similar injury pattern for vaccine-associated myocarditis

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