Tetrad for Isolated Right Atrial Infarction
Purpose: | To identify a patient with an isolated infarct of the right atrium based on the tetrad of Wong et al. |
Specialty: | Cardiology |
Objective: | clinical diagnosis, including family history for genetics |
ICD-10: | I21, I22 |
Description: | Infarction of the right atrium occurs more often than it is recognized, often in the setting of a ventricular infarct. Wong et al described a tetrad of findings seen in a patient with an isolated right atrial infarct associated with disease in the sinus node artery. The authors are from Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California. |
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