Abstract
The term “syndrome X” was coined by Harvey Kemp in his 1973 editorial comment [1] on a puzzling report of electrocardiographic (ECG) signs of myocardial ischemia induced by pacing in the absence of detectable left ventricular dysfunction in a group of patients with angina and normal coronary angiograms [2]. This term proved to be well chosen as during the last quarter of the century this syndrome continued to be the object of conflicting reports and a variety of pathogenetic hypotheses.
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Maseri, A., Lanza, G.A., Buffon, A. (1999). The Changing Concept of Syndrome X. In: Kaski, J.C. (eds) Chest Pain with Normal Coronary Angiograms: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Management. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 213. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5181-2_14
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