Post-COVID vaccine myocarditis: a #tweetorial from a pediatric cardiologist

First off this complication is reasonably scary for parents deciding whether or not to vaccinate their kids. I do hope that this 🧵 helps clarify the data and dispel some myths. Myocarditis is inflammation or swelling of the heart muscle and can lead to dysfunction. Many ways to diagnose it, but gold standard is visualizing the inflammation on cardiac MRI.

In some data sets, it can be over-represented if the definition is an ⬆️troponin (🫀protein) alone