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Vaccine myocarditis update from Korea

Dr. Anish Koka

While US public health authorities have been convinced from the very beginning about how safe and effective the new vaccines are, researchers in other countries with far smaller budgets have been testing that theory. This identified eight cases of sudden cardiac death as caused by VRM that were not known until the autopsy was performed.

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Inferior ST elevation with reciprocal change: which of these 4 patients has Occlusion MI?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

First Troponin I was <2 and peak was 8, echo showed subtle apical lateral hypokinesis, CRP was elevated, and patient was discharged with a diagnosis of regional pericarditis. In this case, there would be evolution, but the evolution would be typical of pericarditis (if the diagnosis of pericarditis was accurate!!