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Q: What do myocarditis and pericarditis have to do with COVID-19?
Bearman (or Stevens): COVID-19 is an illness caused by the SARS-CoV2 virus that presents mainly with fever and respiratory symptoms. In a small number of patients, an abnormal inflammatory response can ensue within days to weeks after the infection and cause inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis) or the sac around the heart (pericarditis).
Q: How common is it for someone with COVID-19 to experience myocarditis or pericarditis?
Turlington: The likelihood of developing myocarditis or pericarditis in patients with COVID-19 is very low. It is estimated that about 150 out of every 100,000 people who develop infection will develop myocarditis or pericarditis. People who develop COVID-19 have an up to 35 times higher risk of developing myocarditis or pericarditis (than people without infection). Myocarditis is to be considered separately from the cases of myocardial injury during critical illness in COVID-19 in which the injury is mediated by sepsis and/or ischemia, and not due to an immune mechanism like in myocarditis.