Trends in ambulatory cardiology consultations for suspected myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination
Published: 23 November 2021 Trends in ambulatory cardiology consultations for suspected myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination Holger Eggebrecht , Philipp Breitbart , Alexander Koch , Bernd Nowak , Claudia Walther , Thomas Voigtländer , Christoph Liebetrau , Rajendra H. Metha & Axel Schmermund In Germany, vaccination against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was approved on December 21st 2020 and the first patient treated on December 26th. On May 7th 2021, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced an official investigation of case reports of myopericarditis in temporal relation to COVID-19 vaccination [ 1 , 2 , 3 ], which was updated on June 11th [ 4 ]. Since then, we noted increasing requests from General Practitioners for urgent cardiologic consultation of patients with suspected myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination. All patients were scheduled within the 2 following business days and underwent standardized...