Posted on 03/29/2024 10:22:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Heart scarring was detected more than one year after COVID-19 vaccination in some people who suffered myocarditis following receipt of a shot, researchers reported in new studies.
A third of 60 patients with follow-up cardiac imaging done more than 12 months after their myocarditis diagnosis had persistent late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), which is, in the majority of cases, reflective of heart scarring, Australian researchers reported in a preprint of a new study, published on March 22.
Myocarditis is a form of heart inflammation.
The median time from receipt of a vaccine to follow-up imaging was 548 days, with the longest interval being 603 days.
“We found that the incidence of persistent myocardial fibrosis is high, seen in almost a third of patients at >12 months post diagnosis, which could have implications for the management and prognosis of this predominantly young cohort,” the researchers wrote.
“The long-term clinical implications of LGE in this condition are as yet unknown, but LGE has been demonstrated to confer worse prognosis in non-COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis, especially if it persists beyond six months,” they added later, pointing to several previous papers.
Researchers in one of the previous papers, for instance, found that LGE was a “powerful prognosticator” of adverse outcomes in myocarditis patients.
Before the new testing, nine patients were determined to definitely have myocarditis, and 58 patients were labeled as probably having myocarditis. The findings of persistent LGE resulted in reclassifying 16 of the cases from probable myocarditis to definite myocarditis.
Exclusions included patients who were pregnant or allergic to agents used in gadolinium testing.
Among a subset of 20 patients who underwent imaging shortly after vaccination, 19 had LGE. In follow-up imaging, LGE was no longer visible in 10 of those patients. In five, it was reduced, but in four it was unchanged.
Andrew Taylor, a professor at Monash University’s Central Clinical School, and his co-authors conducted the study by recruiting patients who were diagnosed with myocarditis associated with COVID-19 vaccination between August 2021 and March 2022. The patients were invited to undergo imaging at Alfred Hospital or Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
The study population with follow-up imaging included 44 adults and 16 adolescents.
Most of the patients had received a Pfizer-BioNTech shot. A minority had received a Moderna or AstraZeneca vaccination. The companies did not respond to requests for comment.
Limitations of the paper, which was published ahead of peer review, included possible selection bias, since participation in the study was voluntary. Authors listed no conflicts of interest or funding.
In the other recent paper, researchers in Canada reported finding about half of patients referred for imaging due to possible post-vaccination myocarditis had persistent LGE in follow-up imaging.
Overall, 60 patients were included in the retrospective study. Of those, seven reported persistent symptoms.
In a subset of 21 patients for whom follow-up MRIs were available, 10 had persistent LGE, the researchers said. On the other hand, function of the left ventricle, which pumps blood, had normalized in all patients.
The persistent LGE “likely reflects replacement fibrosis,” or heart scarring, Dr. Kate Hanneman, with the University of Toronto’s Department of Medical Imaging, and her co-authors wrote. They cited some of the same papers as the Australian group, including the study that found patients with persistent LGE had a higher risk of adverse outcomes, as well as a paper on what it represents when LGE is found on MRI in patients with myocarditis.
“However, the significance of LGE is uncertain in patients post-myocarditis with recovered normal left ventricular systolic function,” the researchers said. They called for additional studies to evaluate patients with persistent LGE and a recovered left ventricle.
The study included adult patients who were referred to a hospital network with suspected myocarditis and had new cardiac symptoms such as chest pain within 14 days of COVID-19 vaccination. The patients all received either the Pfizer or Moderna shot.
Limitations of the study, which was published by the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, included a lack of biopsy-confirmed myocarditis.
The authors declared no funding and listed only one competing interest, that an author is an associate editor of the journal.
The corresponding authors for the two papers did not respond to requests for comment.
“My concern from reading these two studies is that myocardial damage and scarring is present in a significant number of COVID vaccine injured individuals at up to 18 months after vaccination. This suggests potential for permanent heart damage from the vaccines,” Dr. Danice Hertz, the research lead for the U.S. group React19, told The Epoch Times in an email. “The long-term implications are not yet known but need to be studied carefully.”
The new papers add to earlier studies, which found that LGE persists for months in some people following a COVID-19 shot.
Researchers in Washington state reported in 2022 that LGE persisted in children for up to eight months after vaccination. Later that year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that more than half of 151 patients with follow-up imaging had residual LGE, which was described as “suggestive of myocardial scarring.”
The CDC has longer-term data on the patients, the agency confirmed to The Epoch Times in January, but has not yet published another paper describing that data. The CDC, which failed to warn the public about the risk of post-vaccination myocarditis, declined to comment on the new Australian and Canadian papers.
Hong Kong researchers in 2023 reported finding that about half of 40 patients with follow-up MRIs months after vaccination had LGE.
Symptoms have also persisted in some patients with post-vaccination myocarditis.
The CDC, describing preliminary updated results from its longer-term study, said in early 2023 that there were patients still suffering from symptoms more than one year after a shot. Researchers in Australia in late 2023 said that symptoms persisted at least six months after a shot in a majority of patients they followed. And some patients also told The Epoch Times they have lingering health issues years after vaccination.
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all of those people are more at risk for other problems now.
the gadolinium contrast they were injected with is toxic.
Contrast agents are used to increase the visibility of blood vessels, internal organs, and soft tissues in the body during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. They are also used with other imaging technologies like X-rays, CT scans and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). Since the late 1980s, gadolinium has been used in some contrast dyes because of its strong paramagnetic properties, which react to the magnetic resonance of MRIs and make parts of the body easier to see.
Unfortunately, use of gadolinium can also cause a wide variety of adverse effects, some of which are quite severe. Two of the most dangerous complications are nephrogenic systemic fibrosis and gadolinium deposition disease.
Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (NFS) was first discovered in patients with kidney disease who were given gadolinium-based contrast agents. The condition causes the skin to thicken and become discolored, typically in the arms and legs. Thickening of the skin can lead to problems with mobility and flexibility. Other tissues can start to thicken as well, including cardiac tissue around the heart, pleural tissue around the lungs, neural tissue in the brain, the gastrointestinal tract and skeletal muscles. As the disease progresses over weeks or months, it can increase the likelihood of death.
Gadolinium Deposition Disease (GDD) occurs when gadolinium deposits build up in certain parts of the body. The most common places for gadolinium deposits to form are the bones, liver and brain. Unlike NSF, which occurs only in patients with kidney problems, GDD has been observed in people with normal renal function. GDD symptoms can occur in as soon as a few hours or days.
Because gadolinium deposition disease (sometimes called gadolinium retention or gadolinium storage condition) has been recognized fairly recently, no standard treatment exists yet, though anti-inflammatory drugs may help with some of the symptoms. A recently published study indicates chelation therapy (using other agents to bind and help expel substances from the body) may help remove gadolinium deposits. Unfortunately symptoms did not improve proportionately with removal of gadolinium.
(Heart scarring was detected more than one year after COVID-19 vaccination in some people who suffered myocarditis following receipt of a shot, researchers reported in new studies.)
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1 year to flatten the EKG curve.
Thank you. The comments are great.
And idiots will claim the fake vaccine works and is needed or grandma will die.
Why is heart-scarring in the headline but heart scarring is in the article?
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Fauci is gone.
I’m sure he’s now got a gig with big pharma in some shape or form.
Nothing will EVER happen to him.
Government is essentially immune from culpability:
1.) Bureaucratic veil of anonymity.
2.) Secrecy.
3.) Procedural and legal framework that makes it hard to sue the government.
4.) Make decision by committee, i.e. distribute responsibility.
5.) Make truly dubious decisions offline without any email/phone/meeting records or if really brazen run your own illegal server as HRC did.
6.) Pretend you never made that decision (using legalistic guarded language), even though you did as interpreted by everyone else. Fauci did that a lot.
7.) By the time the courts catch up, those responsible have moved on or retired.
8.) Use a panel of experts or a study to hide behind, even though this panel requested by you is really just there to provide cover and went in with a foregone conclusion.
His retirement as a public “servant” is more than four (4) times what an average American family earns, and he will never be held accountable even if it is just a matter of fact that he lied about Wuhan and trying to make that sound like a conspiracy, that he lied about gain of function work.
If you try to nail someone like that down, his defense is almost per-scripted, “I did what was medically the recommended course of action or by a panel of experts at the time, the majority of experts agreed with me, it was necessary for the greater good, I cannot remember, I didn’t make that decision or say that (even though he did), I was following orders, and I based my decision on a panel of experts or data which suggested this made sense (even though that panel and data was all geared to give the answer he wanted).
America needs pitchforks and torches, a renewal, but that isn’t possible anymore because we live in a police state.
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Morons.
Would valve damage be part of this. Know a person who did the whole safe and effective thing and are now getting a new valve TAVR.
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effectively solving the social security problem when folks live too long....
Exactly
Same with ObamaDeathScare
Pure blood here.
I was very pro-vaccine as elective choice prior to the Covid deception. I travelled internationally for IBM and combined with my military service, I believe my vaccination record was more filled out than 95% of the Earth’s population.
Understand that I have had heart surgery due to a birth defect in my heart. I am now very cautious of any shot and look for possible side effects, myocarditis being one that I look for. Because there was no long term study on the vax, I waited.
Now I am glad I did.
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