Intravenous Injection of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA Vaccine Can Induce Acute Myopericarditis in Mouse Model
Background
Post-vaccination myocarditis and pericarditis reported after coronavirus mRNA vaccines.
The effect of accidental intravenous injection of this vaccine on the heart is unknown
Methods in mice
Compared difference between i.m. and i.v. injection of vaccine
Clinical manifestations
Histopathological changes
Tissue mRNA expression
Serum levels of cytokines and troponins
With normal saline (NS) control
Results
Intravenous SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine Administration Induced Grossly Visible Pathology in Heart
Only IV group developed histopathological changes of myopericarditis
Evidenced by cardiomyocyte degeneration
Apoptosis
Necrosis with adjacent inflammatory cell infiltration
Calcific deposits on visceral pericardium
But
Evidence of coronary artery or other cardiac pathologies was absent
Spike