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Review of Cardiac Tests: Multimedia

Author: Richard S Krause, MD, Senior Faculty, Department of Emergency Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine
Coauthor(s): Benjamin O Koenig, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo; Director of Chest Pain Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Buffalo General Hospital
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Updated: Feb 25, 2010

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Classic Wellens syndrome T-wave changes. This ECG...
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Media file 1: Classic Wellens syndrome T-wave changes. This ECG represents a patient after becoming pain free secondary to medications. Notice the deep T waves in V3-V5 and slight biphasic T wave in V6 in this chest pain free ECG. The patient had negative cardiac enzyme levels and later had a stent placed in the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery.
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Classic Wellens syndrome T-wave changes. This ECG...

Classic Wellens syndrome T-wave changes. This ECG represents a patient after becoming pain free secondary to medications. Notice the deep T waves in V3-V5 and slight biphasic T wave in V6 in this chest pain free ECG. The patient had negative cardiac enzyme levels and later had a stent placed in the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery.

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Further Reading

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Keywords

stress test, cardiac testing, cardiac stress test, cardiac risk stratification, exercise stress test, exercise treadmill test, exercise tolerance test, ETT, graded exercise stress test, GXT, pharmacologic stress testing, radionuclide imaging, myocardial perfusion imaging, Cardiolyte, thallium-201, technetium-99 sestamibi, exercise echocardiography, echocardiography, cardiac tests, cardiac CT, cardiac risk, cardiac CT angiography

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Contributor Information and Disclosures

Author

Richard S Krause, MD, Senior Faculty, Department of Emergency Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine
Richard S Krause, MD is a member of the following medical societies: Alpha Omega Alpha, American Academy of Emergency Medicine, American College of Emergency Physicians, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Coauthor(s)

Benjamin O Koenig, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo; Director of Chest Pain Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Buffalo General Hospital
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Medical Editor

David A Peak, MD, Assistant Residency Director of Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Attending Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; Consulting Staff, Department of Hyperbaric Medicine, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
David A Peak, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Emergency Physicians, American Medical Association, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Pharmacy Editor

Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine
Disclosure: eMedicine Salary Employment

Managing Editor

Eddy S Lang, MDCM, CCFP(EM), CSPQ, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary; Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University
Eddy S Lang, MDCM, CCFP(EM), CSPQ is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Emergency Physicians, Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

CME Editor

John D Halamka, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Chief Information Officer, CareGroup Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School; Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
John D Halamka, MD, MS is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Emergency Physicians, American Medical Informatics Association, Phi Beta Kappa, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Chief Editor

David FM Brown, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
David FM Brown, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Emergency Physicians and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

 
 
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