AN EXTRACARDIAL MURMUR OF UNUSUAL ORIGIN

An unusual cause of systolic murmur.

Stable angina is a form of coronary artery disease. Its potential to progress requires the most appropriate treatment in order to reduce the incapacitating effect of an acute angina attack and to avoid long-term cardiovascular events. With or without revascularization, pharmacological treatment is an essential component of this treatment strategy, which also involves lifestyle and diet. Statins...

An unusual cause for a continuous murmur.

A continuous murmur like that of a persistent ductus arteriosus produced by a stenosed branch of a pulmonary artery with a post-stenotic dilatation is presented in the following case. Other abnormalities included a hypoplastic left lung, atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, and an absent left pulmonary artery. The literature on congenital heart disease contains increasing numbers of...

The origin of an immediate diastolic murmur in atrioventricular defects.

An unusual case of systolic murmur and recurrent syncopes.

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Renal anaemia of an unusual origin.

A 23-year-old nurse was admitted because of iron deficiency anaemia. The history indicated that she had had gross haematuria since early childhood. The episodes had regularly been diagnosed as ‘cystitis’ and she had been given antibiotics on numerous occasions. Frequent cystoscopies were negative. One urologist prescribed an ‘oil’ to be instilled in the bladder about which we obtained no furthe...