Clinically suspected myocarditis in COVID-19 patients: Case series and review of the literature

Ahmad Amin; Seyed Parsa Eftekhar; Naghmeh Ziaie; Soudeh Roudbari; Pegah Salehi; Farzad Jalali; Iraj Jafaripour; Sanaz Ghaffari; Maryam Mohseni Salehi; Reza Ebadi

doi:10.1002/ccr3.5236

Clinically suspected myocarditis in COVID-19 patients: Case series and review of the literature

Clin Case Rep. 2021 Dec 26;9(12):e05236. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.5236. eCollection 2021 Dec.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center Iran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran.
² School of Medicine Babol University of Medical Sciences Babol Iran.
³ Department of Cardiology Babol University of Medical Sciences Babol Iran.
⁴ Department of Cardiology Shiraz University of Medical Sciences Shiraz Iran.
⁵ Department of Cardiology Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences Andimeshk Iran.

Abstract

This Study describes eleven patients positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. In our cases, females and younger patients developed more severe disease. In contrast, improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction and N-terminal prohormone brain natriuretic peptide within the first week of treatment contributed to promising outcomes.

Keywords: COVID‐19; NT‐proBNP; SARS‐CoV‐2; echocardiography; myocarditis.

Publication types

Case Reports