Autopsy of a soldier who died of myocarditis after Pfizer COVID vaccination

This article is about the autopsy findings on a 22-year-old soldier from the South Korean military who developed chest pain five days after the first Pfizer BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine and died seven hours later.

On June 13, 2021, 5 days after the first dose of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination, the patient complained to a colleague of chest pain at 1:00 AM, during a smoke break, and went to bed.

At 8:00 AM, he was found hunched beside the bed and unconscious. He was taken to an emergency department, where they found him to have ventricular fibrillation on electrocardiography.

Ventricular fibrillation is an abnormal heart rhythm where the heart muscles fibrillate instead of contract. Consequently, no blood gets pumped to the whole body, including the brain, which explains the loss of consciousness.

The emergency room staff performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation for two hours, but it was unsuccessful.

The history is reminiscent of the article A professional athlete who died of fulminant myocarditis after the Moderna jab. In it, the athlete was found unconscious during practice eight days after getting his first Moderna shot.

Autopsy findings

Grossly, the heart is enlarged. On microscope exam, white blood cells were found in the atria (the upper chambers of the heart) and around the sinoatrial (SA) and atrioventricular (AV) nodes.

In contrast, the ventricular area (lower chamber) displayed minimal or no inflammatory cells.

There was no evidence of micro thrombosis (tiny blood clots) or infection in the heart and other organs. There was no coronary artery disease.

On macroscopic or microscopic examination, no other pathological changes were found in the lung, liver, kidney, spleen, pancreas, or brain.

The primary cause of death was myocarditis, causally associated with the Pfizer BNT162b2 vaccine.

According to the pathologists, who are also the report’s authors, the underlying mechanism of heart damage was due to an immunologic injury.

I think the ventricular fibrillation that caused the cardiac arrest is secondary to the inflammation of the SA node and the AV node.

Effective heart contraction depends on the sequential and coordinated contraction of the muscles of the atria and the ventricles. Those contractions are from the electrical stimuli originating from the SA nose that has to pass thru the AV node.

If both SA and AV are inflamed and non-functioning, there is no dominant signal to coordinate the contraction of the ventricular muscles.

What happens next is the ventricular muscles contract independently, but since there is nothing to coordinate them, the ventricular muscles “jiggle” instead of contract. Thus, no blood comes out, and cardiac arrest follows.

The autopsy findings in this soldier seem mild compared to the Japanese athlete who had fulminant myocarditis that involved the ventricles and the atria.

No blood work was reported in this case, but I speculate that if a troponin level were done, which indicates myocarditis, it would have been low.

He could easily have been diagnosed with mild myocarditis if he had been seen earlier when he started having chest pains. However, the myocarditis hit the bull’s eye, the SA and AV node, in the case of this unfortunate recruit which led to his demise.

This article is my second report about abnormal electrical heart conduction. The first is Complete Heart Block after the Pfizer COVID shot. In that report, the patient was lucky to receive the best care in a tertiary hospital, and he survived.

South Korean soldiers on a recon exercise in 2014. Source: Republic of Korea Armed Forces

Here in the US…

More than 60 thousand National Guard and Reserve Soldiers will lose their pay and benefits in the United States. That’s because they chose not to get vaccinated.

I commend those unvaccinated soldiers for their courage in standing up for their beliefs and for doing their homework.

Currently, in the pandemic, the COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective against the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5. Plus, the mortality risk of the Omicron is 1 in 1,430, which is lower than the flu.

Some may argue that most myocarditis cases following the COVID jabs are mild, but like any injury, myocarditis leaves behind a scar.

A 2021 study published in Heart Rhythms showed that prior non-infectious myocarditis with an anteroseptal scar puts a person at risk for fatal ventricular arrhythmias, just like in this case. [2]

Do we want our soldiers to drop dead from arrhythmias?

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References:

Choi S, Lee S, Seo JW, Kim MJ, Jeon YH, Park JH, Lee JK, Yeo NS. Myocarditis-induced Sudden Death after BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination in Korea: Case Report Focusing on Histopathological Findings. J Korean Med Sci. 2021 Oct 18;36(40):e286. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2021.36.e286. PMID: 34664804; PMCID: PMC8524235.
Casella M, Bergonti M, Narducci ML, Persampieri S, Gasperetti A, Conte E, Catto V, Carbucicchio C, Guerra F, Pontone G, Andreini D, Basso C, Di Biase L, Santangeli P, Natale A, Pelargonio G, Russo AD, Tondo C. Prior myocarditis and ventricular arrhythmias: The importance of scar pattern. Heart Rhythm. 2021 Apr;18(4):589-596. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2020.12.016. Epub 2020 Dec 24. PMID: 33348060.[abstract]

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