Continuous variables are presented as mean and 95% confidence interval, and categorical variables are represented as frequencies and percentages. Statistical analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0.
Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) was performed at the discretion of the treating cardiologist. All patients were scheduled within the 2 following business days and underwent standardized cardiologic assessment including electrocardiography (ECG), echocardiography, and determination of NT-proBNP and high-sensitive troponin T. Since then, we noted increasing requests from General Practitioners for urgent cardiologic consultation of patients with suspected myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination.
On May 7th 2021, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced an official investigation of case reports of myopericarditis in temporal relation to COVID-19 vaccination, which was updated on June 11th. In Germany, vaccination against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was approved on December 21st 2020 and the first patient treated on December 26th.
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