We have had the opportunity of studying 17 patients and wish to add our findings to the scant literature on this benign cardiac malformation. We emphasize the fact that this anomaly is more common ...

What is a Heart/Cardiac Murmur? A cardiac/heart murmur is an extra whooshing sound during heart-beat. The murmur is due to turbulent blood flow in the heart or blood vessels. The cardiac murmur is a ...

Aim: To find out the significance of murmurs heard during infancy. Methods: Retrospective audit of all infants with newly heard murmurs referred from April 2007 to October 2009 to cardiac clinics in ...

Introduction: Heart murmurs in childhood are detected at any age Echocardiography is the gold standard to diagnose or rule out cardiac malformations As this tool is not always available, these ...

Pulmonary Circulation, Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2015), pp. 204-210 (7 pages) AbstractPeripheral pulmonary artery stenosis (PPAS) is an underrecognized condition in the adult population. PPAS can lead to ...

Murmurs are described by their timing in the cardiac cycle, intensity, shape, pitch, location, radiation and response to dynamic maneuvers. Using the aforementioned criteria, a clinician can ...

Pulmonary valve stenosis can be both congenital (present at birth) or something adults develop later on in life. It can range in severity from mild to severe cases. Often, a person may not know they ...

The "murmur" is the sound of blood flowing. It may be passing through an abnormal heart valve, for instance. Or it may be that a condition makes your heart beat faster and forces your heart to handle ...