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  1. Article ; Online: Teaming up to return to play: A shared responsibility to optimize care.

    Chokshi, Neel P / Deo, Rajat

    Heart rhythm O2

    2022  Volume 3, Issue 2, Page(s) 141–142

    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-02-22
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Editorial
    ISSN 2666-5018
    ISSN (online) 2666-5018
    DOI 10.1016/j.hroo.2022.02.012
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  2. Article: Novel Digital Technologies for Blood Pressure Monitoring and Hypertension Management.

    Hare, Allison J / Chokshi, Neel / Adusumalli, Srinath

    Current cardiovascular risk reports

    2021  Volume 15, Issue 8, Page(s) 11

    Abstract: Purpose of review: Hypertension is common, impacting an estimated 108 million US adults, and deadly, responsible for the deaths of one in six adults annually. Optimal management includes frequent blood pressure monitoring and antihypertensive medication ...

    Abstract Purpose of review: Hypertension is common, impacting an estimated 108 million US adults, and deadly, responsible for the deaths of one in six adults annually. Optimal management includes frequent blood pressure monitoring and antihypertensive medication titration, but in the traditional office-based care delivery model, patients have their blood pressure measured only intermittently and in a way that is subject to misdiagnosis with white coat or masked hypertension. There is a growing opportunity to leverage our expanding repository of digital technology to reimagine hypertension care delivery. This paper reviews existing and emerging digital tools available for hypertension management, as well as behavioral economic insights that could supercharge their impact.
    Recent findings: Digitally connected blood pressure monitors offer an alternative to office-based blood pressure monitoring. A number of cuffless blood pressure monitors are in development but require further validation before they can be deployed for widespread clinical use. Patient-facing hubs and applications offer a means to transmit blood pressure data to clinicians. Though artificial intelligence could allow for curation of this data, its clinical use for hypertension remains limited to assessing risk factors at this time. Finally, text-based and telemedicine platforms are increasingly being employed to translate hypertension data into clinical outcomes with promising results.
    Summary: The digital management of hypertension shows potential as an avenue for increasing patient engagement and improving clinical efficiency and outcomes. It is important for clinicians to understand the benefits, limitations, and future directions of digital health to optimize management of hypertension.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-06-09
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2489103-4
    ISSN 1932-9563 ; 1932-9520
    ISSN (online) 1932-9563
    ISSN 1932-9520
    DOI 10.1007/s12170-021-00672-w
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  3. Article ; Online: Evaluation of Online Patient Portal vs Text-Based Blood Pressure Monitoring Among Black Patients With Medicaid and Medicare Insurance Who Have Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease.

    Eberly, Lauren A / Sanghavi, Monika / Julien, Howard M / Burger, Laura / Chokshi, Neel / Lewey, Jennifer

    JAMA network open

    2022  Volume 5, Issue 2, Page(s) e2144255

    MeSH term(s) African Americans/statistics & numerical data ; Aged ; Blood Pressure Determination/statistics & numerical data ; Cardiovascular Diseases/diagnosis ; Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology ; Electronic Health Records/statistics & numerical data ; Female ; Humans ; Hypertension/diagnosis ; Hypertension/epidemiology ; Male ; Medicaid/statistics & numerical data ; Medicare/statistics & numerical data ; Middle Aged ; Patient Portals/statistics & numerical data ; Pennsylvania/epidemiology ; Pilot Projects ; United States
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-02-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Comparative Study ; Journal Article ; Randomized Controlled Trial ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ISSN 2574-3805
    ISSN (online) 2574-3805
    DOI 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.44255
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  4. Article ; Online: Gamification-augmented home-based exercise for peripheral artery disease: Rationale and design of the GAMEPAD Study.

    Fanaroff, Alexander C / Coratti, Samantha / Farraday, David / Norton, Laurie / Rareshide, Charles / Zhu, Jingsan / Levin, Michael G / Damrauer, Scott M / Giri, Jay S / Chokshi, Neel P / Jackson, Benjamin M / Patel, Mitesh S

    American heart journal

    2024  Volume 270, Page(s) 95–102

    Abstract: Background: Supervised exercise therapy improves walking performance, functional capacity, and quality of life in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD). However, few patients with PAD are enrolled in supervised exercise programs, and there are a ...

    Abstract Background: Supervised exercise therapy improves walking performance, functional capacity, and quality of life in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD). However, few patients with PAD are enrolled in supervised exercise programs, and there are a number of logistical and financial barriers to their participation. A home-based walking intervention is likely to be more accessible to patients with PAD, but no fully home-based walking program has demonstrated efficacy. Concepts from behavioral economics have been used to design scalable interventions that increase daily physical activity in patients with atherosclerotic vascular disease, but whether a similar program would be effective in patients with PAD is uncertain.
    Study design and objectives: GAMEPAD (NCT04536012) is a pragmatic, virtual, randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a gamification strategy informed by concepts from behavioral economics to increase daily physical activity in patients with PAD who are seen in cardiology and vascular surgery clinics affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Patients are contacted by email or text message, and complete enrollment and informed consent on the Penn Way to Health online platform. A GAMEPAD substudy will evaluate the effectiveness of opt-in versus opt-out framing when approaching patients for study participation. Patients are then provided with a wearable fitness tracker, establish a baseline daily step count, set a goal to increase daily step count by 33%-50%, and are randomized 1:1 to the gamification or control arms. Interventions continue for 16 weeks, including a 4-week period during which goal step count is gradually increased in the gamification arm, with follow-up for an additional 8 weeks to evaluate the durability of behavior change. The trial has met its enrollment goal of 102 participants, with a primary endpoint of change from baseline in daily steps over the 16-week intervention period. Key secondary endpoints include change from baseline in daily steps over the 8-week postintervention follow-up period and changes in patient-reported measures of PAD symptoms and quality of life over the intervention and follow-up periods.
    Conclusions: GAMEPAD is a virtual, pragmatic randomized clinical trial of a novel, fully home-based walking intervention informed by concepts from behavioral economics to increase physical activity and PAD-specific quality of life in patients with PAD. Its results will have important implications for the application of behavioral economic concepts to scalable home-based strategies to promote physical activity in patients with PAD and other disease processes where physical activity is limited by exertional symptoms.
    Clinical trial registration: clinicaltrials.gov; NCT04536012.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Quality of Life ; Gamification ; Exercise ; Peripheral Arterial Disease/therapy ; Walking ; Exercise Therapy/methods
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-13
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Randomized Controlled Trial ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 80026-0
    ISSN 1097-6744 ; 0002-8703
    ISSN (online) 1097-6744
    ISSN 0002-8703
    DOI 10.1016/j.ahj.2024.02.003
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  5. Article ; Online: Effect of Gamification, Financial Incentives, or Both to Increase Physical Activity Among Patients at High Risk of Cardiovascular Events: The BE ACTIVE Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Fanaroff, Alexander C / Patel, Mitesh S / Chokshi, Neel / Coratti, Samantha / Farraday, David / Norton, Laurie / Rareshide, Charles / Zhu, Jingsan / Klaiman, Tamar / Szymczak, Julia E / Russell, Louise B / Small, Dylan S / Volpp, Kevin G M

    Circulation

    2024  Volume 149, Issue 21, Page(s) 1639–1649

    Abstract: Background: Physical activity is associated with a lower risk of major adverse cardiovascular events, but few individuals achieve guideline-recommended levels of physical activity. Strategies informed by behavioral economics increase physical activity, ... ...

    Abstract Background: Physical activity is associated with a lower risk of major adverse cardiovascular events, but few individuals achieve guideline-recommended levels of physical activity. Strategies informed by behavioral economics increase physical activity, but their longer-term effectiveness is uncertain. We sought to determine the effect of behaviorally designed gamification, loss-framed financial incentives, or their combination on physical activity compared with attention control over 12-month intervention and 6-month postintervention follow-up periods.
    Methods: Between May 2019 and January 2024, participants with clinical atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease or a 10-year risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, or cardiovascular death of ≥7.5% by the Pooled Cohort equation were enrolled in a pragmatic randomized clinical trial. Participants received a wearable device to track daily steps, established a baseline, selected a step goal increase, and were randomly assigned to control (n=151), behaviorally designed gamification (n=304), loss-framed financial incentives (n=302), or gamification+financial incentives (n=305). The primary outcome of the trial was the change in mean daily steps from baseline through the 12-month intervention period.
    Results: A total of 1062 patients (mean±SD age, 67±8; 61% female; 31% non-White) were enrolled. Compared with control subjects, participants had significantly greater increases in mean daily steps from baseline during the 12-month intervention in the gamification arm (adjusted difference, 538.0 [95% CI, 186.2-889.9];
    Conclusions: Behaviorally designed gamification, loss-framed financial incentives, and the combination of both increased physical activity compared with control over a 12-month intervention period, with the largest effect in gamification+financial incentives. These interventions could be a useful component of strategies to reduce cardiovascular risk in high-risk patients.
    Registration: URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov; Unique Identifier: NCT03911141.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Male ; Female ; Motivation ; Exercise ; Middle Aged ; Cardiovascular Diseases/prevention & control ; Aged
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-07
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Randomized Controlled Trial
    ZDB-ID 80099-5
    ISSN 1524-4539 ; 0009-7322 ; 0069-4193 ; 0065-8499
    ISSN (online) 1524-4539
    ISSN 0009-7322 ; 0069-4193 ; 0065-8499
    DOI 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.124.069531
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  6. Article ; Online: Collegiate Wrestler With a Bicuspid Aortic Valve and Aortic Dilation.

    Chhana, Rahul / Rymer, Christopher / Vidula, Mahesh / Fayock, Kristopher / Glassberg, Helene / Kusmiesz, Chris / Husaini, Mustafa / Sivalokanathan, Sanjay / Chokshi, Neel / Krishnan, Sheela

    JACC. Case reports

    2022  Volume 4, Issue 22, Page(s) 1548–1552

    Abstract: Bicuspid aortic valve and aortopathy are generally considered contraindications to isometric exercise. For athletes with mild disease at low risk of adverse events, a shared decision-making approach for continued sports participation is reasonable. We ... ...

    Abstract Bicuspid aortic valve and aortopathy are generally considered contraindications to isometric exercise. For athletes with mild disease at low risk of adverse events, a shared decision-making approach for continued sports participation is reasonable. We present a case of a collegiate wrestler with bicuspid aortic valve and aortopathy to illustrate shared decision making. (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-11-16
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Case Reports
    ISSN 2666-0849
    ISSN (online) 2666-0849
    DOI 10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.09.010
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  7. Article ; Online: Usability of Wearable Devices to Remotely Monitor Sleep Patterns Among Patients With Ischemic Heart Disease: Observational Study.

    Fortunato, Michael / Adusumalli, Srinath / Chokshi, Neel / Harrison, Joseph / Rareshide, Charles / Patel, Mitesh

    JMIR formative research

    2020  Volume 4, Issue 4, Page(s) e14508

    Abstract: Background: There is growing interest in using wearable devices to remotely monitor patient behaviors. However, there has been little evaluation of how often these technologies are used to monitor sleep patterns over longer term periods, particularly ... ...

    Abstract Background: There is growing interest in using wearable devices to remotely monitor patient behaviors. However, there has been little evaluation of how often these technologies are used to monitor sleep patterns over longer term periods, particularly among more high-risk patients.
    Objective: The goal of the research was to evaluate the proportion of time that patients with ischemic heart disease used wearable devices to monitor their sleep and identify differences in characteristics of patients with higher versus lower use.
    Methods: We evaluated wearable device data from a previously conducted clinical trial testing the use of wearable devices with personalized goal-setting and financial incentives. Patients with ischemic heart disease established a sleep baseline and were then followed for 24 weeks. The proportion of days that sleep data was collected was compared over the 24 weeks and by study arm. Characteristics of patients were compared to groups with high, low, or no sleep data.
    Results: The sample comprised 99 patients with ischemic heart disease, among which 79% (78/99) used the wearable device to track their sleep. During the 6-month trial, sleep data were collected on 60% (10,024/16,632) of patient-days. These rates declined over time from 77% (4292/5544) in months 1 and 2 to 58% (3188/5544) in months 3 and 4 to 46% (2544/5544) in months 5 and 6. Sleep data were collected at higher rates among the intervention group compared with control (67% vs 55%, P<.001). In the main intervention period (months 3 and 4), patients with higher rates of sleep data were on average older (P=.03), had a history of smoking (P=.007), and had higher rates of commercial health insurance (P=.03).
    Conclusions: Among patients with ischemic heart disease in a physical activity trial, a high proportion used wearable devices to track their sleep; however, rates declined over time. Future research should consider larger evaluations coupled with behavioral interventions.
    Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02531022; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02531022.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-04-07
    Publishing country Canada
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2561-326X
    ISSN (online) 2561-326X
    DOI 10.2196/14508
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  8. Article ; Online: A randomized controlled trial of gamification, financial incentives, or both to increase physical activity among patients with elevated risk for cardiovascular disease: rationale and design of the be active study.

    Fanaroff, Alexander C / Patel, Mitesh S / Chokshi, Neel / Coratti, Samantha / Farraday, David / Norton, Laurie / Rareshide, Charles / Zhu, Jingsan / Szymczak, Julia E / Russell, Louise B / Small, Dylan S / Volpp, Kevin G M

    American heart journal

    2023  Volume 260, Page(s) 82–89

    Abstract: Background: Higher levels of physical activity are associated with improvements in cardiovascular health, and consensus guidelines recommend that individuals with or at risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) participate in regular ... ...

    Abstract Background: Higher levels of physical activity are associated with improvements in cardiovascular health, and consensus guidelines recommend that individuals with or at risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) participate in regular physical activity. However, most adults do not achieve recommended levels of physical activity. Concepts from behavioral economics have been used to design scalable interventions that increase physical activity over short time periods, but the longer-term efficacy of these strategies is uncertain.
    Study design and objectives: BE ACTIVE (NCT03911141) is a pragmatic, virtual, randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the effectiveness of 3 strategies informed by behavioral economic concepts to increase daily physical activity in patients with established ASCVD or 10-year ASCVD risk > 7.5% who are seen in primary care and cardiology clinics affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Patients are contacted by email or text message, and complete enrollment and informed consent on the Penn Way to Health online platform. Patients are then provided with a wearable fitness tracker, establish a baseline daily step count, set a goal to increase daily step count by 33% to 50%, and are randomized 1:2:2:2 to control, gamification, financial incentives, or both gamification and financial incentives. Interventions continue for 12 months, with follow-up for an additional 6 months to evaluate the durability of behavior change. The trial has met its enrollment goal of 1050 participants, with a primary endpoint of change from baseline in daily steps over the 12-month intervention period. Key secondary endpoints include change from baseline in daily steps over the 6-month post-intervention follow-up period and change in moderate to vigorous physical activity over the intervention and follow-up periods. If the interventions prove effective, their effects on life expectancy will be compared with their costs in cost-effectiveness analysis.
    Conclusions: BE ACTIVE is a virtual, pragmatic randomized clinical trial powered to demonstrate whether gamification, financial incentives, or both are superior to attention control in increasing physical activity. Its results will have important implications for strategies to promote physical activity in patients with or at risk for ASCVD, as well as for the design and implementation of pragmatic virtual clinical trials within health systems.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Humans ; Motivation ; Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology ; Cardiovascular Diseases/prevention & control ; Gamification ; Exercise
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-02
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Randomized Controlled Trial ; Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 80026-0
    ISSN 1097-6744 ; 0002-8703
    ISSN (online) 1097-6744
    ISSN 0002-8703
    DOI 10.1016/j.ahj.2023.02.014
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  9. Article ; Online: Feasibility and outcomes from using a commitment device and text message reminders to increase adherence to time-restricted eating: A randomized trial.

    Fanaroff, Alexander C / Coratti, Samantha / Halaby, Rim / Sanghavi, Monika / O'Quinn, Rupal P / Krishnan, Sheela / Glassberg, Helene / Bajaj, Archna / Adusumalli, Srinath / Chokshi, Neel / Patel, Mitesh S

    American heart journal

    2023  Volume 258, Page(s) 85–95

    Abstract: Background: Obesity is strongly associated with cardiovascular disease, particularly through its effects on blood pressure. Though maintaining a negative caloric balance leads to weight loss, many patients struggle to adhere to low calorie diets over ... ...

    Abstract Background: Obesity is strongly associated with cardiovascular disease, particularly through its effects on blood pressure. Though maintaining a negative caloric balance leads to weight loss, many patients struggle to adhere to low calorie diets over the long term. Time-restricted eating, a subtype of intermittent fasting (IF), may be an easier dietary pattern for patients to initiate and maintain. We tested the feasibility of a bidirectional texting strategy to help patients with obesity and hypertension initiate and maintain time-restricted eating, and whether a commitment device, a pledge to behave in a certain way in the future while making nonadherence costlier, would increase adherence beyond bidirectional texting.
    Methods: Patients with obesity and hypertension seen in cardiology clinics were provided education on time-restricted eating and randomized to a commitment device versus attention control. Attention control consisted of daily bidirectional text messages asking whether patients adhered to IF and weekly text messages asking participants to send their weight and blood pressure. The commitment device involved the same text messages as attention control, plus a commitment contract, setting of implementation intentions with respect to details of time-restricted eating, and involvement of a support partner who received weekly updates on the participant's adherence to time-restricted eating. The intervention lasted 12 weeks, followed by a 6-week follow-up period. The primary outcome was days per week adherent to time-restricted eating over the 18-week study period, measured by daily self-report. We also compared change from baseline weight and blood pressure between randomized groups.
    Results: A total of 37 patients were randomized and started the study-20 to attention control and 17 to the commitment device. Mean age was 60 years old, and mean BMI was 38.4 kg/m
    Conclusions: A bidirectional texting strategy was feasible for helping patients with obesity and hypertension initiate and adhere to time-restricted eating. Adding a commitment device to bidirectional texting did not increase adherence to time-restricted eating compared with attention control, nor were there significant between group changes in blood pressure or weight, but these comparisons were underpowered. A larger randomized trial of the effect of this scalable intervention, compared with usual care, on blood pressure and weight among patients with obesity and hypertension is warranted.
    Clinical trials registration: clinicaltrials.gov; unique identifier: NCT04836312.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Middle Aged ; Text Messaging ; Feasibility Studies ; Hypertension/drug therapy ; Obesity ; Body Weight
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-01-11
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Randomized Controlled Trial ; Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 80026-0
    ISSN 1097-6744 ; 0002-8703
    ISSN (online) 1097-6744
    ISSN 0002-8703
    DOI 10.1016/j.ahj.2022.12.010
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  10. Article: Myocarditis and Other Cardiovascular Complications of the mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccines.

    Vidula, Mahesh K / Ambrose, Marietta / Glassberg, Helene / Chokshi, Neel / Chen, Tiffany / Ferrari, Victor A / Han, Yuchi

    Cureus

    2021  Volume 13, Issue 6, Page(s) e15576

    Abstract: Cardiovascular complications following the receipt of mRNA-based (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines have not yet been described. In this case series, we describe two patients with clinically suspected myocarditis, ... ...

    Abstract Cardiovascular complications following the receipt of mRNA-based (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines have not yet been described. In this case series, we describe two patients with clinically suspected myocarditis, one patient with stress cardiomyopathy, and two patients with pericarditis after receiving an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine. The two patients with clinically suspected myocarditis were otherwise healthy young men who presented with acute substernal chest pressure and/or dyspnea after receiving the second dose of the vaccine and were found to have diffuse ST elevations on electrocardiogram (ECG), elevated cardiac biomarkers and inflammatory markers, and mildly reduced left ventricular (LV) function on echocardiography. Both patients met the modified Lake Louise Criteria for acute myocarditis by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. We subsequently discuss a case of a 60-year-old woman with known coronary artery disease (CAD) and previously normal LV function, who presented with new exertional symptoms, ECG changes, and apical akinesis following the second dose of the vaccine, and was diagnosed with a stress cardiomyopathy. Finally, we describe two patients with pericarditis who presented with chest pain, elevated inflammatory markers, and pericardial effusions after receiving the vaccine. Overall, this case series describes the first reported cases of myocarditis, stress cardiomyopathy, and pericarditis after receiving an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-06-10
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Case Reports
    ZDB-ID 2747273-5
    ISSN 2168-8184
    ISSN 2168-8184
    DOI 10.7759/cureus.15576
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