Key result
Prinzmetal variant angina features rest pain with transient ST elevation, normal baseline ECGs, and arrhythmias.
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Facilitates recognition of variant angina with rest pain and transient ST elevation; confirms the 1959 characterization for ongoing clinical and research use.
This text summarizes the classic diagnostic features of Prinzmetal variant angina as originally described in 1959.
Joseph W. Linhart (1974) conducted a review in Prinzmetal Variant of Angina Pectoris. Prinzmetal variant of angina pectoris is characterized by rest pain, ST elevation during pain, normal ECG between episodes, single vessel focal lesions, arrhythmias, and subsequent infarction.
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