A heart murmur is present in babies born with ventricular septal defect. This is usually the first sign. Most often the murmur can be heard right after birth, but at times cannot be heard until the ...

When a doctor listens to the heart of a person with a heart murmur, they may hear a whooshing, swishing, humming, or rasping sound. This is due to rapid, turbulent blood flow through the heart.

Describe the murmur of an atrial septal defect (ASD)? The murmur produced by an ASD is due to increased flow through the pulmonic valve, thus it is remarkably similar to that of pulmonic stenosis. The ...

This paper presents serial cardiac-catheterization data showing spontaneous functional closure of large symptomatic defects in 3 infants. One had an associated moderate-sized patent ductus arteriosus ...

A routine doctor’s visit usually involves the doctor listening to your heart with his stethoscope. Have you ever wondered what a heart problem would sound like? Listen to the following 11 heart sound ...

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 ...

Just the thought of a heart murmur in your child may be enough to invoke dreadful visions of heart disease and dysfunction. However, in most cases the murmur is entirely innocent and will not stop ...

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 ...

Aim: Aim is to find out outcome of children above 1 referred with murmurs. Methods: This is a retrospective audit of patients above 1 referred between April 2007 and October 2009 to consultant ...

Heart diseases that are present at birth are called "Congenital heart diseases" and there are over 35 different such heart problems that may be discovered in a newborn. Some of these require no ...

There may be a genetic link between people who experience heart murmurs. These heart murmurs may be harmless or related to underlying heart disease, which can be inherited from family. Share on ...