COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine and Myocarditis

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is believed to have originated in the Hua nan South China Seafood Market in Wuhan and can present with a spectrum of clinical manifestations. We report the case of 24-year-old male patient who developed chest pain after administration of the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and who was diagnosed with myocarditis on work-up.

Keywords

• covid-19
• severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
• sars-cov-2
• myocarditis
• covid-19 vaccine
• side effects
• adverse events
• pericarditis
• inflammation of the heart