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J Pediatr. 2021 Dec 21; doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.12.025. Epub 2021 Dec 21.

mRNA Coronavirus-19 Vaccine-Associated Myopericarditis in Adolescents: A Survey Study.

The Journal of pediatrics

Utkarsh Kohli, Lavina Desai, Devyani Chowdhury, Ashraf S Harahsheh, Alexandra B Yonts, Annete Ansong, Arash Sabati, Hoang H Nguyen, Tarique Hussain, Danyal Khan, David A Parra, Jennifer A Su, Jyoti K Patel, Christina Ronai, Monique Bohun, Bishara J Freij, Matthew J O'Connor, Joseph W Rosanno, Aamisha Gupta, Arash Salavitabar, Adam L Dorfman, Jesse Hansen, Olivia Frosch, Elizabeth L Profita, Shiraz Maskatia, Deepika Thacker, Shubhika Shrivastava, Tyler Harris, Brian Feingold, Stuart Berger, Michael Campbell, Salim F Idriss, Srikant Das, Markus S Renno, Ken Knecht, S Yukiko Asaki, Sunil Patel, Ravi Ashwath, Renata Shih, John Phillips, Bibhuti Das, Preeti Ramachandran, Eyal Sagiv, Aarti H Bhat, Jonathan N Johnson, Nathaniel Taggart, Jason Imundo, Natasha Nakra, Shashank Behere, Anjlee Patel, Avichal Agarwal, Saif Aljemmali, Sean Lang, Sarosh Batlivala, Daniel E Forsha, Gregory P Conners, Jana Shaw, Frank C Smith, Linda Pauliks, Joseph Vettukattil, Kenneth Shaffer, Stefanie Cheang, Sonia Voleti, Rajesh Shenoy, Rukmini Komarlu, Shea J Ryan, Christopher Snyder, Neha Bansal, Madhu Sharma, Jeffrey Robinson, Sandra R Arnold, Christine M Salvatore, Madan Kumar, Michael Fremed, Julie S Glickstein, Melissa Perrotta, William Orr, Tamika Rozema, Muthayipalayam Thirumoorthi, Charles J Mullett, Jocelyn Y Ang

Affiliations

  1. Department of Pediatrics, Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Critical Care, West Virginia University School of Medicine and West Virginia University Children's Hospital, Morgantown, WV 26506. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. Children's Hospital of Michigan, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious, Diseases, 3901 Beaubien Street, Detroit, MI 48084 and Central Michigan University, College of Medicine, 1280 East Campus Dr, Mt Pleasant, MI 48858, USA.
  3. Cardiology Care for Children, Nemours, AI Dupont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA 19803.
  4. Department of Pediatrics, Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's National Hospital, Washington D.C. and The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Washington D.C. 20010.
  5. Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children's National Hospital, Washington D.C. and The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Washington D.C. 20010.
  6. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ 85016.
  7. Department of Pediatrics, Children's Medical Center Dallas, UTSW Medical Center,y.
  8. Department of Cardiology, Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami, FL, USA 33155.
  9. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN 37232.
  10. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027.
  11. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Riley Children's Hospital, Indianapolis, IN 46202.
  12. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Portland, OR 97239.
  13. Beaumont Children's Hospital, 3601 W 13 Mile Road, Royal Oak, Michigan, 48073 and Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, 586 Pioneer Drive, Rochester, MI 48309.
  14. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
  15. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, CA 92123.
  16. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
  17. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Palo Alto, CA 94304.
  18. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE 19803.
  19. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
  20. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL 60611.
  21. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Duke Children's Hospital, Durham, NC 27710.
  22. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, AR 72202.
  23. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Utah/Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT 84113.
  24. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA 17101.
  25. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, Iowa City, IA 52242.
  26. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Gainesville, FL 32160.
  27. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, Richmond, VA 23219.
  28. Department of Pediatrics, Children's of Mississippi Heart Center, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216.
  29. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Kentucky Children's Hospital and University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY 40536.
  30. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA 98105.
  31. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Mayo Clinic Children's Center, Rochester, MN 55905.
  32. Department of Pediatric, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Penn State Health Children's Hospital, Hershey, PA 17033.
  33. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, UC Davis Children's Hospital, Sacramento, CA 95817.
  34. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Oklahoma Children's Hospital, Oklahoma City, OK 73104.
  35. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, West Virginia University School of Medicine and CAMC Women's and Children's Hospital, Charleston, WV 25302.
  36. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX 77030.
  37. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612.
  38. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229.
  39. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO 64108.
  40. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital, Syracuse, NY 13210.
  41. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI 49503.
  42. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Dell Children's Medical Center, Austin, TX 78723.
  43. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Hospital of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70118.
  44. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, Loma Linda, CA 92354.
  45. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Children's Hospital, New York, NY 10029.
  46. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH 44195.
  47. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, UNC Children's Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC 27514.
  48. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH 44106.
  49. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY 11501.
  50. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Omaha, Omaha, NE 68114.
  51. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN 38103.
  52. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY 10021.
  53. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL 60637.
  54. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032.
  55. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Norton Children's Hospital, Louisville, KY 40202.
  56. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.
  57. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne, IN 46804.
  58. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Ascension St. John Hospital, Detroit, MI 48236.
  59. Department of Pediatrics, Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Critical Care, West Virginia University School of Medicine and West Virginia University Children's Hospital, Morgantown, WV 26506.

PMID: 34952008 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.12.025

Abstract

In this survey study of institutions across the US, marked variability in evaluation, treatment, and follow-up of adolescents 12 through 18 years of age with mRNA COVID-19 vaccine-associated myopericarditis (VAM) was noted. Only one adolescent with life-threatening complications was reported with no deaths at any of the participating institutions.

Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Keywords: mRNA COVID-19 vaccine-associated myopericarditis; outcomes; survey; variability

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