Angina Stents Thrombolysis 
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
APRIL 22, 2024
Patient is pain free and clearly has Wellens' syndrome: 1) pain free episode following an episode of angina, typical Pattern A (biphasic, terminal T-wave inversion with an initial upsloping ST Segment) findings, preserved R-waves. Angiography : --Culprit for the patient's unstable angina/Wellen syndrome is a ruptured plaque in the mid LAD. --As
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
DECEMBER 19, 2023
The commonest causes of MINOCA include: atherosclerotic causes such as plaque rupture or erosion with spontaneous thrombolysis, and non-atherosclerotic causes such as coronary vasospasm (sometimes called variant angina or Prinzmetal's angina), coronary embolism or thrombosis, possibly microvascular dysfunction.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MARCH 9, 2013
A stent was placed. When there is extremely brief ischemia, as in this case , or this case , it may entirely reverse, especially in unstable angina (negative troponins). Angiographic and clinical characteristics of patients with unstable angina showing an ECG pattern indicating critical narrowing of the proximal LAD coronary artery.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MARCH 11, 2016
A middle-aged woman had intermittent angina for 48 hours, then onset of constant, crushing chest pain for 1.5 It was treated with and dual "kissing balloons" and drug eluting stents. Patients who received CPR or experienced reinfarction or very small infarcts due to thrombolysis also displayed Type II T-wave evolution.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JUNE 28, 2018
Angiographic and clinical characteristics of patients with unstable angina showing and ECG pattern indicating critical narrowing of the proximal LAD coronary artery. A comparison of electrocardiographic changes during reperfusion of acute myocardial infarction by thrombolysis or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
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