Publication date: Feb 05, 2025
A 15-year-old male presented with vasovagal syncope and troponin leak 4 days after his second COVID-19 vaccine. Based on initial diagnostic work-up, he was thought to have COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis. His cardiac dysfunction persisted and further work-up including genetic evaluation and serial MRI studies later confirmed a diagnosis of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. This is a unique case of an incorrect diagnosis based on timing and context of vaccine-related myocarditis. Reports of mild and self-limited myocarditis post-COVID-19 vaccination may cause vaccine hesitancy among the public, and so case reports such as this one show the importance of discerning underlying conditions amongst rare COVID-19 vaccination complications.
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Cardiomyopathy | arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy |
| Days | COVID-19 |
| Lies | vaccine myocarditis |
| Mri | |
| Vaccines |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | myocarditis |
| disease | MESH | vasovagal syncope |
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 |
| disease | MESH | complications |