Meghan Holohan is a digital health reporter for TODAY.com and covers patient-centered stories, women’s health, disability and rare diseases.
After going on vacation in July 2022, Loree Benigni, then 39, returned home and felt like she had the flu. When her symptoms didn't improve, she visited an urgent care, where doctors ran tests and saw something wrong with the electric signals in her heart. They recommended that she go to the emergency room, and there Benigni learned her condition was dire. “They told me at that time I was one of the sickest patients in the ER,” Benigni, now 41, of Pittsburgh, tells TODAY.com.
Robert Kormos, divisional vice president, global medical affairs for Abbott’s heart failure business, who did not treat Benigni, tells TODAY.com. “If myocarditis isn’t detected, it is going to lead to heart failure.” Myocarditis can also contribute to stroke or cardiac arrest, like it did in Benigni’s case. Viruses, such as flu or COVID, can cause viral myocarditis, and cardiologists saw an uptick of such cases during the pandemic, Kormos explains.
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