{"id":10237,"date":"2021-06-07T10:53:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T17:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10237"},"modified":"2021-06-08T10:54:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:54:19","slug":"symptomatic-acute-myocarditis-in-seven-adolescents-following-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/07\/symptomatic-acute-myocarditis-in-seven-adolescents-following-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccination\/","title":{"rendered":"Symptomatic Acute Myocarditis in Seven Adolescents Following Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reports from seven cases of acute myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) or myopericarditis among adolescent males who developed chest pain within four days of receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and were hospitalized found that six of seven patients had negative SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid antibody assays (indicating no prior infection), and all patients\u2019 symptoms resolved quickly. Three patients were treated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and 4 received intravenous immune globulin and corticosteroids. Diagnostic evaluation for other myocarditis etiologies, including respiratory pathogens from nasopharyngeal swabs, and diagnostics for other infectious agents, were all negative.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marshall et al.\u00a0(June 4, 2021). Symptomatic Acute Myocarditis in Seven Adolescents Following Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccination. Pediatrics. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1542\/peds.2021-052478\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1542\/peds.2021-052478<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports from seven cases of acute myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) or myopericarditis among adolescent males who developed chest pain within four days of receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and were hospitalized found that six of seven patients had negative SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid antibody assays (indicating no prior infection), and all patients\u2019 symptoms resolved quickly. Three patients&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/07\/symptomatic-acute-myocarditis-in-seven-adolescents-following-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccination\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[142],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-10237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-vaccine","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10238,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237\/revisions\/10238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10237"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}