Typical symptoms: breathlessness, fatigue, ankle swelling. Typical signs: tachycardia, tachypnoea, pulmonary rales, pleural effusion, raised jugular venous pressure (JVP), peripheral oedema, hepatomegaly. Objective evidence of a structural or functional abnormality of the heart at rest: cardiomegaly, third heart sound, cardiac murmurs, echocardiogram abnormalities, raised natriuretic peptide co...

Diastolic murmurs have always been considered abnormal, but this report presents nine apparently normal children with high-frequency, early, diamond-shaped diastolic murmurs confirmed by intracavitary phonocardiography to arise within the left ventricle. Each child (aged 5 to 15 years) was referred for evaluation of a systolic murmur at the lower left sternal border, but an additional finding a...

BACKGROUND Although cardiac auscultation remains important to detect abnormal sounds and murmurs indicative of cardiac pathology, the application of electronic methods remains seldom used in everyday clinical practice. In this report we provide preliminary data showing how the phonocardiogram can be analyzed using color spectrographic techniques and discuss how such information may be of future...

Heart murmurs are sounds made by rapid blood flow in the heart. Abnormal heart can be a sign of serious conditions such as arrhythmia and cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, murmur classification is crucial for early detection conditions. To this end, we study problem training selected convolutional neural network (CNN) models (such VGGNet ResNet) using various signal representations spectrogra...

The clinical findings and the necropsy report of a 14-year-old girl suffering from Takayasu's arteriopathy have been presented. In addition to the typical arterial changes, thickening and puckering of the aortic valve and a patch of thickening in the left atrial endocardium were shown at necropsy. The histology of this lesion was found to be identical with the arterial intimal changes. It has b...

A 50 year old, recent cardiac transplant recipient developed systolic and diastolic murmurs but remained asymptomatic. The cause of the murmurs was not evident at transthoracic echocardiography. During routine left heart catheterisation a left anterior descending artery to right ventricular fistula was evident arising from the distal vessel and presumably acquired during routine endomyocardial ...

Hallidie-Smith, K. A. (1972). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 47, 725. Murmur of persistent ductus arteriosus in premature infants. A longterm survey of the repeated clinical examination of premature newborn infants is reported. There were 52 infants in whom there was well-documented clinical and phonocardiographic evidence of delayed closure of the ductus arteriosus. The ductus is believed t...

The author describes some auscultory findings in ventricular tachycardia, which will aid the reader when he is confronted with diagnosing either supraventricular tachycardia or ventricular tachycardia. An excellent chapter discusses evaluation of the severity of hypertension based on auscultory findings. These also come from the author's studies. The author, in a chapter on functional and innoc...

A murmur is a sound generated when blood travels through vessels or valves in a turbulent or energy-dissipating manner. It can be an important clue to a structural abnormality of the cardiovascular system. However, over 50% of people have murmurs during childhood, but less than one percent are associated with congenital heart disease. Thus, the vast majority of murmurs are benign or innocent ra...