The condition was detected in athletes with mild or asymptomatic cases of COVID-19.
The findings were hinted at at the end of August, when Dr. Wayne Sebastianelli, the director of athletic medicine at Penn State, said during a discussion with school board members that 30 percent of Big Ten athletes who had COVID-19 showed signs of the condition, an inflammation in the heart muscle.
Scott Gilbert, a spokesman for Penn State Health, told NBC News that Sebastianelli had misstated the findings at the time and apologized for any confusion. Gilbert added that Penn State was not involved with the research, and that there have been no cases of myocarditis in COVID-19 positive student-athletes at the school. In fact, the new study was conducted by doctors at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, who were considering the safest ways to send athletes back in the fall. Ultimately, the Big Ten Conference, which includes both Ohio State and Penn State, decided against playing this fall. “We were asked this question as to what would be the safest way to send them back to competitive play,” study co-author Dr. Saurabh Rajpal, a cardiologist at Ohio State, said. “We decided in our own group that in addition to the usual recommendations, which was a clinical exam and looking for symptoms, we would also do a cardiac MRI to get more information and to see what the virus does to athletes'The research included both male and female athletes in basketball, lacrosse, track, soccer and football. All were confirmed to have recovered from COVID-19, and none required hospitalized or specific treatments. Twelve of the athletes reported mild, including a sore throat and shortness of breath or fever, while the remaining 14 were asymptomatic. To study the virus’s effects on the heart, the athletes had several tests as well as a cardiac MRI to image the heart.Sign Up
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