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Facing COVID-19 : myocarditis following vaccination with mRNA SARS-CoV-2
Weerts V , Lempereur M , Léonard Ph , Lancellotti P
Rev Med Liege 2023, 78(3),141-146Abstract : Myocarditis is a relatively uncommon and underdiagnosed heart disease. Its clinical presentation is variable, from pauci-symptomatic to a symptomatology of sudden chest pain. The latter mimics cardiological emergencies and must therefore be quickly discerned to guide the rest of the treatment. The treatment is mainly supportive and rarely directly etiological. This is a pathology that resurfaced with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic but also with vaccination. We present here the case of a mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine-induced myocarditis whose clinical manifestations impose a rapid decision concerning the differential diagnosis with an acute coronary syndrome.
