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

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Clin Case Rep


. 2021 Dec 26;9(12):e05236.
doi: 10.1002/ccr3.5236. eCollection 2021 Dec.
Clinically suspected myocarditis in COVID-19 patients: Case series and review of the literature


Ahmad Amin ¹ , Seyed Parsa Eftekhar ² , Naghmeh Ziaie ³ , Soudeh Roudbari ¹ , Pegah Salehi ¹ , Farzad Jalali ³ , Iraj Jafaripour ³ , Sanaz Ghaffari ⁴ , Maryam Mohseni Salehi ⁵ , Reza Ebadi ⁴



Affiliations

• PMID: 34963812
• PMCID: PMC8710561
• DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.5236

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.