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Clinical significance of U-wave inversion during attacks in patients with variant angina Kunihisa Miwa 1 , Hirofumi Kambara 1 , Chuichi Kawai 1 , Tomoyuki Murakami 2 1The Third Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University 2The Cardiology Division, Kyoto Takeda Hospital pp.709-714
Published Date 1984/7/15
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1404204479
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Sequential 12 lead electrocardiogram recorded during angina provoked by ergonovine maleate in 39 patients with variant angina were examined. Transient U-wave inversion was observed in all 18 patients with ST-segment elevation in anterior chest leads, but only in 4 of 21 patients with ST-segment elevation in inferior leads. In the former patients, all of whom spasm of the left anterior des-cending coronary artery, the sensitivity of ST-seg-ment elevation in V5 was only 44%, which rose to 78% when the sensitivity of U-wave inversion of the same lead was combined. The maximal inversion of U-wave was observed in V3 or V4 in most cases. During the recovery phase of angina, the sensitiv-ity of U-wave inversion was 89% in V4 and 72% in V5 (p<0.01). In six of them (33%) U-wave in-version preceded ST-segment elevation. These results suggest that transient U-wave inversion dur-ing anginal attacks are closely related to severe myocardial ischemia, which may be caused by coro-nary spasm with or without significant organic stenosis. Detection of inverted U-wave may be help-ful in diagnosis of variant angina when only a single lead of V5 or modified V5 is used as a monitor lead, and when electrocardiograms can be recorded only during the recovery phase of angina.


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