BECAUSE of the great interest currently demonstrated in the surgical correction of mitral stenosis, it has become essential for the clinician to be able to diagnose this condition with the greatest ...

23-year-old male with interstitial nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, fever, and dyspnea. The patient is on corticosteroid therapy. A loud systolic murmur is heard at the apex. White blood count and ...

ALTHOUGH Fauvel, 1 in 1843, attributed the apical presystolic murmur to stenosis of the mitral valve, Duroziez's 2 description — "ffout-tata-rou" — in 1862 has been considered as the classic ...

Midsystolic murmurs — also known as systolic ejection murmurs, or SEM — include the murmurs of aortic stenosis, pulmonic stenosis, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and atrial septal defects. A ...

How would you describe the intensity of a very loud diastolic murmur? This would be described as a IV/IV murmur or 4/4 intensity murmur. This describes the intensity, but remember the timing, pitch, ...