Journal of the Bahrain Medical Society
Year 2021, Volume 33, Issue 4, Pages 29-32
https://doi.org/10.26715/JBMS.33_2021_4_7Ghada Al Qassim1 , Vimalarani Arulselvam2, Suad R Al Amer3, Salah Al Ghanem4, Neale Nicola Kalis5
1MD, DCH, SSC-P, SF-PEM, Senior Consultant Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine Department, Bahrain Defence Hospital, Royal Medical Services, Kingdom of Bahrain.
2MBBS, DNB (Ped.). FNB (Ped Card.), Specialist Pediatric Cardiology, Mohammed bin Khalifa Cardiac Center, Kingdom of Bahrain.
3MD, DCH, SSC-P, SF-Ped (Card), Consultant Pediatric Cardiology, Mohammed bin Khalifa Cardiac Center, Kingdom of Bahrain.
4MD, SBEM, MSc HCM(RCSI), Consultant Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine Department, Bahrain Defence Hospital, Royal Medical Services, Kingdom of Bahrain.
5MBChB, M Meds (Peds.), FCP (Peds. ) SA, Consultant Pediatric Cardiology, Mohammed bin Khalifa Cardiac Center, Kingdom of Bahrain. Affiliation: Bahrain Defense Forces Hospital - Kingdom of Bahrain, Mohammed bin Khalifa bin Salman Al -Khalifa Cardiac Center and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Medical University of Bahrain.
*Corresponding author: Ghada Al Qassim, MD, DCH, SSC-P, SF-PEM, Senior Consultant Pediatric Emergency Medicine , Emergency Medicine Department, Bahrain Defence Hospital, Royal Medical Services, Kingdom of Bahrain E-mail: gma_53@hotmail.com
Received date: August 9, 2021; Accepted date: December 08, 2021; Published date: December 31, 2021
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 201 9 (COVID - 1 9 ) vaccination for children over 12 years of age began on May 2021 in the kingdom of Bahrain. Very limited data is available regarding the adverse events related to COVID -19 vaccination in children. This is a case report of a 12-year-old previously healthy boy with acute myopericarditis who presented on day 5 after the first dose of Pfizer COVID - 19 vaccination. Other causes of acute myopericarditis were ruled out. He was treated with non - steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and recovered fully. This case of vaccine-induced myocarditis was reported to the national task force of Bahrain for combating COVID - 19.
Keywords: Pfizer-BioNTech, COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA vaccine, Myocarditis, Pericarditis, Troponin I