Almost every day the news brings another story of a young person dying of cardiac arrest. It is a sickening realization that COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis could leave a zone of scar in the heart, risking the chance of ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, and cardiac arrest at any time. Recently Hulscher, et al. have conclusively shown by autopsy that COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis can be fatal.
Now a Hong Kong study by Yu and colleagues have found that of young persons who had heart damage confirmed by MRI [magnetic resonance imaging] and who underwent a second scan one year later, 58 percent had residual abnormalities suggesting a scar could be forming in the heart muscle.
Forty adolescents, mean age of 15, mostly boys, were evaluated. It was notable that 73 percent had no cardiac symptoms, so without an evaluation, the parents would have had no idea their child was suffering heart damage from the COVID-19 vaccine. Approximately 18 percent of cases initially had reduced left ventricular ejection fraction indicating they were at risk for the development of heart failure.
Yu CK, Tsao S, Ng CW, Chua GT, Chan KL, Shi J, Chan YY, Ip P, Kwan MY, Cheung YF. Cardiovascular Assessment up to One Year After COVID-19 Vaccine-Associated Myocarditis.
The authors point out that several other studies have found a majority of COVID-19 vaccine myocarditis cases with abnormal cardiac MRI findings have not resolved at 3–6 months. Now the report by Yu and colleagues suggest the damage may be permanent at a year.
Please share this important development with parents who have vaccinated their children or are contemplating succumbing to school mandates. The shot may cause irreversible damage and a lifetime of worry and regret.
Reposted from Peter McCullough’s Substack
◇ References:
Yu CK, Tsao S, Ng CW, Chua GT, Chan KL, Shi J, Chan YY, Ip P, Kwan MY, Cheung YF. Cardiovascular Assessment up to One Year After COVID-19 Vaccine-Associated Myocarditis. Circulation. 2023 Aug;148(5):436-439. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.064772. Epub 2023 Jul 31. PMID: 37523760; PMCID: PMC10373639.
Schauer J, Buddhe S, Gulhane A, Sagiv E, Studer M, Colyer J, Chikkabyrappa SM, Law Y, Portman MA. Persistent Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings in a Cohort of Adolescents with Post-Coronavirus Disease 2019 mRNA Vaccine Myopericarditis. J Pediatr. 2022 Jun;245:233-237. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.03.032. Epub 2022 Mar 26. PMID: 35351530; PMCID: PMC8957353.
Barmada A, Klein J, Ramaswamy A, Brodsky NN, Jaycox JR, Sheikha H, Jones KM, Habet V, Campbell M, Sumida TS, Kontorovich A, Bogunovic D, Oliveira CR, Steele J, Hall EK, Pena-Hernandez M, Monteiro V, Lucas C, Ring AM, Omer SB, Iwasaki A, Yildirim I, Lucas CL. Cytokinopathy with aberrant cytotoxic lymphocytes and profibrotic myeloid response in SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine-associated myocarditis.
The above article is from Epoch Times and doesn’t reflect views of thevoiceofcitizens.com
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. Epoch Health welcomes professional discussion and friendly debate.
Dr. Peter A. McCullough
MD
Dr. McCullough is a practicing internist, cardiologist, and epidemiologist in Dallas, Texas. He studies the cardiovascular complications of both the viral infection and the injuries developed from COVID vaccines. He has dozens of peer-reviewed publications on COVID, multiple U.S. and state Senate testimonies, and has commented extensively on the medical response to the COVID crisis on major media outlets.