pericarditis

This will include studies of myocarditis and pericarditis, rare side effects in which the heart muscle or its outer lining becomes inflamed.

The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines require two doses and as of June, also have a warning about the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis, or inflammation of the heart, especially among younger recipients of the shots.

Based on how many cases of myocarditis and pericarditis that would be expected in young people, the number of reported cases was higher than expected for 12- to 39-year-olds, the researchers found.

Moderna’s vaccine is currently authorized for people 18 and older, so any myocarditis or pericarditis cases noted in 12- to 17-year-olds are mostly from the Pfizer vaccine or from clinical trials in teens and tweens.

That’s why sports doctors for years have warned that athletes who develop pericarditis should not return to play until it is gone.

Pericarditis scorbutica—a condition which has been observed mostly in Russia in recent times.

The whiteness of the heart would have been due to the fibrinous layer of lymph on its surface, from the pericarditis.

Inflammation of this sac, or pericarditis, is apt to occur as a result of rheumatism, more especially in children.

The amount of plastic pleurisy associated with it was usually great, and in one case there was also severe pericarditis.

The same may be said of the endocarditis and pericarditis noted by several authors.