Name: Approximately HALF of young males with myocarditis develop PERMANENT heart damage | Dr. Drew Pinsky
Uploaded: 2023-11-19T17:00:00+00:00
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Description: I had some trouble finding the study that dr. Drew is referring to, but I expect it’s this study: Cardiac Troponins for Diagnosis and Prognostic Assessment of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Myocarditis a

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I had some trouble finding the study that dr. Drew is referring to, but I expect it’s this study:

Cardiac Troponins for Diagnosis and Prognostic Assessment of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Myocarditis and Myositis: The Emerging Importance of Peripheral Vision | Christopher deFilippi and Ana Barac (published: Oct. 9, 2023)
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.065988

The article is behind a paywall, but the first page is shown. It says, among other things:

> [Immune checkpoint inhibitor]-related myocarditis ... is associated with a case fatality rate exceeding 40% with worse prognosis reported in patients with concomitant myasthenia gravis-like and myositis symptoms. Elevation of cardiac troponin (cTn) is a major component of the diagnosis of ICI-related myocarditis

This article says:

> Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)–induced myocarditis is one of the most serious complications of cancer treatment. Although the incidence is uncommon, physicians should be aware of this potentially life-threatening immune-related adverse event (irAE) because of a potential case-fatality rate that can, in the most severe cases, approach 50%.

https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jaccao.2020.12.001

The articles are specifically about Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)-induced myocarditis, but unless there is clear and compelling evidence to the contrary, we should assume heart damage is heart damage, regardless of the cause.