• Clinical cardiology · Mar 2008

    Case Reports

    Wellens' syndrome or inverted U-waves?

    • Mohammad Reza Movahed.
    • University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Tucson, Arizona, USA. rmova@aol.com
    • Clin Cardiol. 2008 Mar 1; 31 (3): 133-4.

    AbstractThis report describes an example of a patient with chest pain and classic electrocardiographic changes consistent with ischemia in the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) territory. This electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormality is known as Wellens' syndrome. However, the same abnormality is also described as inverted U-waves. The significance of this abnormality and the controversy of describing this syndrome is reviewed and discussed.

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