“Abstract: We aimed to study the incidence of post-acute COVID-19 myocarditis and pericarditis. Retrospective cohort study of 196,992 adults after COVID-19 infection in Clalit Health Services members in Israel between March 2020 and January 2021… We did not observe an increased incidence of neither pericarditis nor myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID-19 infection…
Conclusions: Our data suggest that there is no increase in the incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis in COVID-19 recovered patients compared to uninfected matched controls.”
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