Press and publications

Publications

American Heart Journal

Rolfs et al (2024): “Clinical course and follow-up of pediatric patients with COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis compared to non-vaccine-associated myocarditis within the prospective multicenter registry ‘MYKKE’ “, American Heart Journal 2024 Jan; 267:101-115

Klinische Pädiatrie

Paul et al (2023): “Leitlinie Myokarditis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Pädiatrische Kardiologie”, Klinische Pädiatrie 2023 May; 235(3):e1-e15

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

Schöffl et al (2023): “Myocarditis and Sports in the Young: Data from a Nationwide Registry on Myocarditis – ‘MYKKE Sport’ “, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023 Jun; 26:5:1197640

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease

Seidel et al (2022): “Pathogenic Variants in Cardiomyopathy Disorder Genes Underlie Pediatric Myocarditis—Further Impact of Heterozygous Immune Disorder Gene Variants?”, Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 9(7):216

International Journal of Cardiology

Seidel et al (2022): “Clinical characteristics and outcome of biopsy-proven myocarditis in children – Results of the German prospective multicentre registry ‘MYKKE’ “, International Journal of Cardiology 357:95-104

Frontiers in pediatrics

Seidel et al (2022): “Compensatory Upregulation of Anti-Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Antibody Levels might prevent heart failure presentation in pediatric myocarditis”, Frontiers in pediatrics 10:881208

Cardiology in the Young

Pitak et al. (2022): “Cardiovascular magnetic resonance in children with suspected myocarditis: current practice and applicability of adult protocols”, Cardiology in the Young 2022; 32:1957-1965

Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine

Seidel et al (2021): “Pathogenic Variants associated with dilated Cardiomyopathy predict outcome in pediatric mycocarditis”, Circulation, Genomic and Precision Medicine 2021; 14:e003250

Pediatric Transplantation

Schubert et al. (2019): “Severe heart failure and the need for mechanical circulatory support and heart transplantation in pediatric patients with myocarditis: results from the prospective multicenter registry ‘MYKKE’ “, Pediatric Transplant 2019 Jul 23:e13548

Kardiologie up2date

Schubert et al. (2017): “Myokarditis im Kindes- und Jugendalter”, Kardiologie up2date 2017; 13 (3): 275-293. Article in German.

American Heart Journal

Messroghli et al. (2017): “Towards evidence-based diagnosis of mycoarditis in children and adolsescents: rationale, design and first baseline data of MYKKE, a multicenter registry and study platform”, American Heart Journal 2017 May; 187: 133-144

Press releases MYKKE Project “PedMYCVAC”

Ministry of Health Germany

Announcement of the funding “PedMYCVAC Follow-Up” within the funding priority “Model measures for the care of children and adolescents with Long COVID and diseases with a similar cause or disease manifestation”. (Article in German)

Long Covid Initiative (Ministery of Health Germany)

Presentation of PedMYCVAC Follow Up at the Long Covid Round Table 2025 with Health Minister Prof. Lauterbach

Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines Germany)

Press release: Follow-up and comparison of children and adolescents with COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis against non-vaccine-associated myocarditis in the MYKKE registry (Description in German)

Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines Germany)

Press release: “MYKKE Registry – Registration of Children and Adolescents with Suspected Myocarditis after COVID-19 Vaccination”

German Heart Center Berlin

Website news: “Myocarditis after corona vaccination in children: New study provides clarity” (Article in German)

Press releases

European Soceity of Cardiology

Comment by the ESC Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases to the Paper above written by Messroghli et al. (2017).

German Heart Foundation

Press release: Winning the Gerd Killian project funding from the German Heart Foundation for the research project “Inflammation in heart muscle cells in children: Are defective genes to blame?” (Article in German)

Berliner Sparkassenstiftung Medizin

Project description from the sponsor: “MYKKE und MYKKE-Outcome” (Description in German)

kinderherzen Fördergemeinschaft Deutsche Kinderherzzentren e.V.

Project description from the sponsor: “MYKKE” (Description in German)

German Heart Center Berlin

Website news: “MYKKE becomes an elephant” (Article in German)