What would be your threshold to offer coronary angiography for patients presenting with atypical chest pain features and Wellens syndrome on EKG without a troponin elevation or dynamic EKG changes?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
In three words- very low threshold.
Wellens syndrome typically presents with T-wave inversion in V 2, 3, but can be across the precordium. The patient may be asymptomatic at the time of presentation, but Wellen probably represents a pre-infarction state representing proximal LAD thrombus. The propo...