title: Wellens' syndrome with segmental wall-motion abnormalities.
abstract: Wellens' syndrome is a pattern of electrocardiographic T-wave changes associated with critical, proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery stenosis. We herein report 2 cases of Wellens' syndrome with segmental wall-motion abnormalities The first case is a 50-year-old man admitted to the emergency department with typical chest pain. Admission ECG showed biphasic T waves in leads V1-V3 with inverted T waves in leads V4-V6, and cardiac enzymes were in normal limits. The second case is a 62-year-old woman admitted to the emergency department with chest pain on rest. Admission ECG showed deeply inverted T waves in leads V1-V4, and troponin T was minimally elevated. The critical lesions in the proximal segment LAD were successfully opened with stent deployments. Wall-motion abnormalities returned to normal after intervention.
authors.affiliation: Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Department of Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Turgay
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Celik
authors.affiliation: Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Department of Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Baris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bugan
authors.affiliation: Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Department of Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Serdar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Firtina
authors.affiliation: Van Army District Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Van, Turkey.
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Celik
authors.affiliation: Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Department of Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Sait
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Demirkol
authors.affiliation: Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Department of Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Atila
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Iyisoy
keywords: T-wave syndrome; Wellens’ syndrome; wall-motion abnormality