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Retired Brown U academic internist, epidemiologist & clinical trialist; historical researcher & author https://t.co/pIrCHR7xRk

Jan 24, 2023, 6 tweets

1/ Five refs I discussed last PM (1/23/23) during @anish_koka’s outstanding #TwitterSpaces on whether “Covid-19 myocarditis” is an actual entity, or a mere epiphenomenon (the latter notion is better supported by both sound epidemiological & autopsy data!)

2/ “Incidence of acute myocarditis and pericarditis during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: comparison with the prepandemic period.” J Cardiovasc Med. 2022 Jul 1;23(7):447-453. doi: 10.2459/JCM.0000000000001330. Epub 2022 Jun 23. PMID: 35763765. journals.lww.com/jcardiovascula…

3/ Myocarditis and Pericarditis After Vaccination for COVID-19. JAMA. 2021 Sep 28;326(12):1210-1212. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.13443. PMID: 34347001; PMCID: PMC8340007. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

4/ Clinically Suspected and Biopsy-Proven Myocarditis Temporally Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Annu Rev Med. 2022 Jan 27;73:149-166. doi: 10.1146/annurev-med-042220-023859. Epub 2021 Sep 10. PMID: 34506211 annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

5/ COVID-19-Associated cardiac pathology at the postmortem evaluation: a collaborative systematic review. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2022 Aug;28(8):1066-1075. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2022.03.021. Epub 2022 Mar 23. PMID: 35339672; PMCID: PMC8941843. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

6/ Morphological changes without histological myocarditis in hearts of COVID-19 deceased patients, Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal, 56:1, 166-173, DOI: 10.1080/14017431.2022.2085320 doi.org/10.1080/140174…

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