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 ...

Trouble began two years ago when the cat had gingivitis (infection of gums), and was diagnosed with myocarditis (heart inflammation), leading to DCM phenotype (thin heart muscles). But her heart ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was an increase in myocarditis cases, but the World Health Organization linked this to enterovirus infections, not COVID-19 vaccination. The organization's statement doesn't mention vaccines ...

Inflammation resulting from a viral infection has traditionally been thought to cause acute myocarditis, which can lead to fatal heart arrhythmias in otherwise healthy young adults. Now ...

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 ...

Myocarditis and pericarditis are conditions that involve heart inflammation. Myocarditis affects the heart muscle itself, while pericarditis impacts the pericardium — the layer of tissue that ...