Publications by authors named "Karina Mehta"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigated the clinical features and long-term outcomes of myocarditis linked to COVID-19 vaccination, focusing on 333 affected patients under 30 compared to 100 with MIS-C.
- Findings indicated that C-VAM patients were mostly young white males, experienced milder symptoms initially, but had higher rates of myocardial injury as shown by cardiac imaging.
- Despite a generally benign course and no reported cardiac deaths during follow-up, 60% of patients still showed evidence of myocardial injury after approximately six months.
COVID vaccine-associated myocarditis was first identified in March 2021. There have been numerous case reports that detail the clinical course of paediatric patients older than age 12 with COVID vaccine-associated myocarditis. There are still very few reports of children between the ages of 5 and 11 with COVID vaccine-associated myocarditis.
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