pericarditis

Definitions

Examples

• 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.