Heart murmurs can sometimes be harmless, or they might need to be addressed if they're caused by a heart condition. Here's ...

Heart murmurs are often harmless, especially in children, but some can indicate serious issues. Doctors assess murmurs by their timing, sound, and radiation. If a murmur is concerning or accompanied ...

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 ...

When expectant parents imagine their baby’s beating heart, few consider the possibility of a structural issue being present from day one. Yet for thousands of families each year, this becomes reality ...

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 ...

When Su Lee was just seven years old, he found out he had a heart murmur, caused by a congenital heart defect. The heart murmur was discovered at a routine check-up after Lee was in a car accident ...

Heart murmur that resolves when a child moves from a supine to a standing position can reliably rule out pathologic heart murmurs in pediatric patients, a study found. Implementing this low-cost ...

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 ...