Acute Myocarditis Following Vaccination With the First Dose of the mRNA-1273 Vaccine

• Main Authors: Abdulbaril Olagunju MD (Author), Ali Moradi MD (Author), Benjamin Johnson MD (Author), Zachary Lebaron BS (Author), Ross Johnson BS (Author), Azar Mehdizadeh FACC (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Viral infections are a common cause of acute myocarditis. However, vaccines including influenza and smallpox have also been rarely implicated. Recently, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines have been associated with acute myocarditis. We describe a case of acute myocarditis in a 19-year-...