“The Results of Autopsies for Two Teenage Boys Who Were Found Dead in Bed 3 and 4 Days After Receiving the Second Dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine”
February 16th, 2022Via: College of American Pathologists:
Both teenage boys had similar clinical presentations with no obvious cardiac symptoms. Their histopathology does not demonstrate a typical myocarditis. In those instances, one sees lymphocytic (or giant cell) infiltrates with adjacent myocyte necrosis; changes such as hypereosinophilic myocytes and contraction bands are absent. In these two post-vaccination instances, there are areas of contraction bands and hypereosinophilic myocytes distinct from the inflammation. This injury pattern is instead similar to what is seen in the myocardium of patients who are clinically diagnosed with Takotsubo, toxic, or “stress” cardiomyopathy, which is a temporary myocardial injury that can develop in patients with extreme physical, chemical, or sometimes emotional stressors.
