Abstract
By comparing phenotypic clinical characteristics and cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) findings in 14 patients with COVID-19 mRNA vaccine-associated myocarditis to 14 patients with acute myocarditis from other causes, we found that patients with COVID-19 vaccination- associated acute myocarditis have higher left ventricular ejection fraction, higher left ventricular global circumferential and radial strain, and less involvement of late gadolinium enhancement in the septal segments with less involvement of midmyocardial pattern of late gadolinium enhancement, compared to patients with acute myocarditis from other causes.