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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?

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Cardiology · University of Maryland School of Medicine

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 propos...

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