Methods Requests from general practitioners were directed to a new murmur clinic. Auscultation and a point-of-care scan were performed by a cardiologist between 1 October 2013 and 31 December 2014 and ...

The cause of this murmur has been the subject of much speculation. A glance at the various explanations 9–20 and comments regarding the Flint murmur (Table 1) demonstrates that the etiology ...

THE primary purpose of this report is to emphasize the relation of a high-pitched "squeaking" or "musical" systolic murmur to aortic stenosis and calcification of the aortic valve. This is not so ...

The word murmur is used to describe the noise made by the blood as it flows through the hearts and big vessels leading in and out of the heart. Doctors often hear murmurs when they listen to a ...

for clinical outcome and its correlation with microbiological etiology in patients with infective endocarditis (IE). Methods: A retrospective single-center analysis was performed from 2007 till 2009.

Julia Butterworth, 53, had two valves in her heart replaced in 2007 after doctors detected a murmur in the organ. Despite being monitored, the gran-of-four underwent another operation in 2022 to ...

In patients with infective endocarditis, echocardiographic vegetation features, especially mobility of vegetation, predict risk for symptomatic embolism. Echocardiographic vegetation features can ...

Injection drug use is a relatively infrequent cause of endocarditis in this group of patients in more contemporary cohorts. All patients with suspected Gram-negative endocarditis should undergo ...