Open AccessIncidence of acute myocarditis and pericarditis during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: comparison with the prepandemic period
Author(s) -
Giovanni Donato Aquaro,
Roberto Licordari,
Giancarlo Todiere,
Umberto Ianni,
Santo Dellegrotaglie,
Luca Restivo,
Crysanthos Grigoratos,
Francesco Patanè,
Andrea Barison,
Antonio Micari,
Gianluca Di Bella
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of cardiovascular medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.458
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1558-2035
pISSN - 1558-2027
DOI - 10.2459/jcm.0000000000001330
Subject(s) - medicine , myocarditis , pericarditis , incidence (geometry) , pandemic , covid-19 , acute pericarditis , heart disease , cardiology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , physics , optics
Myocarditis and pericarditis have been proposed to account for a proportion of cardiac injury during SARS-CoV-2 infection. The impact of COVID-19 the pandemic on the incidence of this acute inflammatory cardiac disease was not systematically evaluated.