Vaccines (Apr 2022)

COVID Vaccine-Associated Myocarditis in Adolescent Siblings: Does It Run in the Family?

  • Julia Moosmann,
  • Thomas Gentles,
  • Christopher Occleshaw,
  • Bryan Mitchelson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10040611
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 4
p. 611

Abstract

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The development of myocarditis after receiving messenger RNA vaccination against COVID-19 is well documented, particularly in adolescent and young adult males. We report a case of vaccine-associated myocarditis in adolescent brothers following their second dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech, Mainz, Germany). This report illustrates the need to better understand the mechanisms leading to myocarditis after mRNA vaccination.

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