Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Systematic analysis of drug-associated myocarditis reported in the World Health Organization pharmacovigilance database

  • Lee S. Nguyen,
  • Leslie T. Cooper,
  • Mathieu Kerneis,
  • Christian Funck-Brentano,
  • Johanne Silvain,
  • Nicolas Brechot,
  • Guillaume Hekimian,
  • Enrico Ammirati,
  • Badr Ben M’Barek,
  • Alban Redheuil,
  • Estelle Gandjbakhch,
  • Kevin Bihan,
  • Bénédicte Lebrun-Vignes,
  • Stephane Ederhy,
  • Charles Dolladille,
  • Javid J. Moslehi,
  • Joe-Elie Salem

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27631-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Multiple drugs have been in the past associated with myocarditis. Here the authors perform a pharmacovigilance study and analyze 5108 reports of drug-induced myocarditis reporting temporal trends and overall mortality and identifying emerging drug classes among the treatments associated with myocarditis.