Pseudo Wellens T-waves in patients with suspected myocardial infarction: How cardiac magnetic resonance imaging can help the diagnosis

Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci; Pablo Denes; Thomas A. Holly; Edwin Wu

doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.05.062

Pseudo Wellens T-waves in patients with suspected myocardial infarction: How cardiac magnetic resonance imaging can help the diagnosis

Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Pablo Denes, Thomas A. Holly, Edwin Wu^*

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Abstract

Wellens' syndrome is characterized by symmetrically inverted T-waves in the precordial leads suggestive of impending myocardial infarction due to a critical proximal left anterior descending (LAD) stenosis. We describe three unusual cases of patients with such electrocardiographic abnormality in which coronary angiography ruled out the presence of critical coronary stenosis and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging excluded the presence of acute or chronic myocardial infarction.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	e68-e71
Journal	International Journal of Cardiology
Volume	128
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.05.062
State	Published - Aug 18 2008

Keywords

Acute myocardial infarction
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
Electrocardiography
QT prolongation
Wellens' T waves

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Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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