These were healthy children, with no evidence of active or previous COVID-19 infection. They also had toxicology screens showing no poisons or drugs present in their bodies.
Instead of observations seen with normal myocarditis injury, the authors explain the injury as “closely resembling a catecholamine-mediated stress (toxic) cardiomyopathy.”
“The microscopic findings are not the alterations seen with typical myocarditis. This suggest a role for cytokine storm which may occur with an excessive inflammatory response.”
The idea that these injuries could be a result of a natural COVID infection was thus ruled out. They explain that “there are areas of contraction bands and hypereosinophilic myocytes distinct from the inflammation that’s seen with typical myocarditis.”
The type of injuries these two boys suffered is also called ‘neurogenic myocardial injury’ or ‘broken heart syndrome.’...<<<Read More>>>....
