mRNA Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine-Associated Myopericarditis in Adolescents: A Survey Study
Jocelyn Ang, MD of UP's Infectious Disease Division co-authored the following, first published online in December 22, 2021 in The Journal of Pediatrics.
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 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine-associated myopericarditis was noted. Only one adolescent with life-threatening complications was reported, with no deaths at any of the participating institutions.
Utkarsh Kohli, Lavina Desai, Devyani Chowdhury, Ashraf S. Harahsheh, Alexandra B. Yonts, Annette 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 H. 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 W. Taggart, Jason Imundo, Natasha Nakra, Shashank Behere, Anjlee Patel, Avichal Aggarwal, Saif Aljemmali, Sean Lang, Sarosh P. 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 A. Robinson, Sandra R. Arnold, Christine M. Salvatore, Madan Kumar, Michael A. Fremed, Julie S. Glickstein, Melissa Perrotta, William Orr, Tamika Rozema, Muthayipalayam Thirumoorthi, Charles J. Mullett, Jocelyn Y. Ang,
mRNA Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine-Associated Myopericarditis in Adolescents: A Survey Study,
The Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 243, 2022, Pages 208-213.e3, ISSN 0022-3476, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.12.025.
