The Incidence and Significance of Systolic Cardiac Murmurs in Infants
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The incidence and significance of systolic cardiac murmurs in infants.
In the course of carrying out routine physical examinations on newborn babies, certain infants were found who presented loud systolic cardiac murmurs in the absence of other abnormal physical signs. The significance of such a finding was doubtful, but the murmur in many cases was so loud as to suggest the possibility of congenital heart disease. An investigation was therefore carried out to ass...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1953
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.28.137.52