A Canadian medical professor has criticized the idea that there are mild cases of heart inflammation
“Contrary to what a number of people have said, there is no such thing as ‘mild myocarditis,’” Dr. Steven Pelech said in an interview with the Western Standard. Pelech founded a pharmaceutical company and is a faculty member in the University of British Columbia’s medical school.
Myocarditis increases the probability of a heart attack later in life, Pelech explained.
“It’s the destruction of the myocytes, the heart cells that contract. When those cells die, they are not replaced in your body and are instead replaced by scar-tissue, which is from fibroblasts — skin cells which don’t have contractile activity, so the remaining muscle cells have to get a little bigger in order to compensate,” he said in the interview. “Every time you get an inflammatory response, you lose more of that contractility and have a greater chance of heart attack and other problems later in life.”
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