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 '''1976''' Erhardt and colleagues describe the use of a right-sided precordial lead in the diagnosis of right ventricular infarction which has previously been thought to be electrocardiographically silent. <cite>Erhardt</cite>
-'''1982''' Hein J. J. Wellens et al first described a characteristic ECG pattern of T waves in the mid-precordial leads (esp. V2-3) that were associated with a tight, critical stenosis of the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery.  Later eponymously referred to as Wellens' warning or syndrome. <cite>Wellens</cite>
+'''1982''' Hein J. J. Wellens et al first described two electrocardiographic patterns that were predictive of tight, critical stenosis of the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery and were subsequently termed Wellens' syndrome. <cite>Wellens</cite>
 '''1988''' Professor John Pope Boineau of Washington University School of Medicine publishes a 30-year perspective on the modern history of electrocardiography. <cite>Boineau</cite>