Documented cardiac tophi are rare and have not previously been reported to cause clinically manifest valvular disease. A 31-year-old male with complex cyanotic congenital heart disease (Taussig-Bing anomaly) and secondary tophaceous gouty arthritis is described. Terminally, he presented with clinical evidence of a brain abscess and a new semilunar regurgitant murmur. Two-dimensional echocardiog...

T HE auscultatory and phonocardiographic characteristics of ventricular septal defects have been the subject of several studies,'-5 none of them dealing specifically with the features of small defects. The present study represents an attempt to define the phonocardiographic pattern of ventricular septal defect with a small left-to-right shunt and normal pulmonary artery pressure. It was hoped t...

Documented cardiac tophi are rare and have not previously been reported to cause clinically manifest valvular disease. A 31-year-old male with complex cyanotic congenital heart disease (Taussig-Bing anomaly) and secondary tophaceous gouty arthritis is described. Terminally, he presented with clinical evidence of a brain abscess and a new semilunar regurgitant murmur. Two-dimensional echocardiog...

‘J’he patient is a 30-year-old asymptomatic man with a heart murmur first discovered two months prior to his referral to the Mayo Clinic for cardiac evaluation. Physical examination revealed right ventricular lift, grade 2/6 ejection systolic murmur at the pulmonic area, and persistently split second heart sound. A mid-diastolic flow murmur was heard at the left lower sternal border. The roentg...

Identification of perceptual cues can be very helpful in almost all areas of speech signal processing. Recently, a new methodology called the 3-Dimensional-Deep Search and a visualized intelligible time-frequency computer-based model AI-gram have been introduced for research on the perceptual cues. Based on the technique, the acoustic cues for stop consonants [1], fricative consonants [2] and n...

Congenital heart disease is now the most common severe congenital abnormality found in live births and the cause of more than half the deaths from congenital anomalies in childhood. Heart murmurs are often the first signs of pathological changes of the heart valves, and they are usually found during auscultation in the primary health care. Auscultation is widely applied in clinical activity; no...

We report the case of an 18-year-old young man without previous medical history, who was referred for evaluation asymptomatic cardiac murmur. Physical examination found holosystolic 4-5/6 apical murmur with normal ECG. Bidimensionnal (2D) echocardiography revealed severe mitral regurgitation thin leaflets. Three dimensional (3D) Echocardiography done better assessment valve mechanism isolated l...

INTRODUCTION The most common clinical sign in pediatric cardiology is a heart murmur (organic and inorganic). Organic are sign of heart disease, while inorganic (basically divided into accidental and functional) murmurs occur on anatomically healthy heart. AIM To determine the justification of the application of the methods of cardiac treatment. PATIENTS AND METHODS Study included 116 child...

Continuous murmur is a peculiarity of cardiovascular auscultation, relatively rare, which often hides complex cardiovascular diseases. This article is a review of literature data related to the continuous murmurs accompanied by commenting and illustrating them through our own cases.Recognizing of a continuous murmur and understanding the cardiovascular pathologies that it can hide, is a challen...

We evaluated auscultatory findings in a 67-year-old man with acquired pulmonic and mitral regurgitation. During inspiration, the murmur of pulmonic regurgitation decreased in intensity prior to surgery, but increased in intensity after mitral valve replacement. Inspiration reduces the volume of mitral regurgitation, thereby reducing the volume and murmur of pulmonic regurgitation.