Show Notes

Hosts: Joe Offenbacher MD, Audrey Bree Tse MD

EKG Findings in de Zwaan C, Bär FW, Wellens HJ. Characteristic electrocardiographic pattern indicating a critical stenosis high in left anterior descending coronary artery in patients admitted because of impending myocardial infarction. Am Heart J. 1982 Apr;103(4 Pt 2):730-6. doi: 10.1016/0002-8703(82)90480-x. PMID: 6121481.

Table 1 in de Zwaan C, Bär FW, Wellens HJ. Characteristic electrocardiographic pattern indicating a critical stenosis high in left anterior descending coronary artery in patients admitted because of impending myocardial infarction. Am Heart J. 1982 Apr;103(4 Pt 2):730-6. doi: 10.1016/0002-8703(82)90480-x. PMID: 6121481.

REFERENCES:

de Zwaan C, Bär FW, Wellens HJ. Characteristic electrocardiographic pattern indicating a critical stenosis high in left anterior descending coronary artery in patients admitted because of impending myocardial infarction. Am Heart J. 1982 Apr;103(4 Pt 2):730-6. doi: 10.1016/0002-8703(82)90480-x. PMID: 6121481.

Lee, M., & Chen, C. (2015). Myocardial Bridging: An Up-to-Date Review. Journal of Invasive Cardiology, 27(11), 521–528.

https://lifeinthefastlane.com/ecg-library/wellens-syndrome/

Lin AN, Lin S, Gokhroo R, Misra D. Cocaine-induced pseudo-Wellens’ syndrome: a Wellens’ phenocopy. BMJ Case Rep. 2017 Dec 14;2017:bcr2017222835. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2017-222835. PMID: 29246935; PMCID: PMC5753703.

Rhinehardt, J., Brady, W. J., Perron, A. D., & Mattu, A. (2002). Electrocardiographic manifestations of Wellens’ syndrome. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 20(7), 638–643. https://doi.org/10.1053/ajem.2002.34800

Tandy, TK; Bottomy DP; Lewis JG (March 1999). “Wellens’ syndrome”. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 33 (3): 347–351. PMID 10036351. doi:10.1016/S0196-0644(99)70373-2. (via Wikipedia)

Episode 182.0 – Wellens

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