The Curious Case of Pseudo-Wellens' Syndrome and Myocardial Bridging

Overview

Journal J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2022 Jan 18

PMID 35038933

Authors

David Milne

Divya Ramadhin

Rajeev Seecheran

Valmiki Seecheran

Ronald Henry

Naveen Anand Seecheran

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Abstract

Wellens' syndrome is an electrocardiographic harbinger of a critical left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery stenosis in acute coronary syndromes (ACS), whereas pseudo-Wellens' syndrome typically has angiographically normal coronary arteries. Myocardial bridging (MB) occurs when an epicardial coronary artery segment takes a tunneled intramuscular course. We describe a rare case of MB-induced pseudo-Wellens' syndrome in a young patient presenting with unstable angina (USA).

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