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Case Reports
. 2016 Apr 19;188(7):529.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.150550. Epub 2016 Jan 11.

Wellens syndrome

Debraj Das  1 , Nawaf S Almajed  2
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Case Reports

Wellens syndrome

Debraj Das et al. CMAJ. .
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Figure 1:
(A) Electrocardiogram showing the Wellens pattern (black arrows) in the precordial leads of a 70-year-old woman who presented to the emergency department with intermittent pain in the left arm over the preceding 24 hours. (B) Coronary angiogram showing 90% stenosis of the proximal left anterior descending artery (white arrow).
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