World Library  
  
Flag as Inappropriate
Email this Article

Continuous murmurs

Article Id: WHEBN0021784490
Reproduction Date:

Title: Continuous murmurs  
Author: World Heritage Encyclopedia
Language: English
Subject: Heart murmurs, Turbulence, Levine scale, Heart click, Carotid bruit
Collection:
Publisher: World Heritage Encyclopedia
Publication
Date:
 

Continuous murmurs

Auscultogram from normal and abnormal heart sounds

Heart murmurs are most frequently organized by timing, into systolic heart murmurs and diastolic heart murmurs. However, continuous murmurs can not be directly placed into either category.[1]

These murmurs are due to blood flow from a high pressure chamber or vessel to a lower pressure system.

  • shunts. Usually a left to right shunt through a small atrial septal defect in the presence of mitral valve obstruction.

References

  1. ^ "continuous murmur" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
  2. ^ "Gibson murmur" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
  3. ^ Gibson GA 1898 Diseases of the heart and aorta. Pentland, Edinburgh, pp 61, 303, 310–312
  4. ^ Tynan M (December 2003). "The murmur of the persistently patent arterial duct, or "The Colonel is going to a dance"". Cardiol Young 13 (6): 559–62.  
Cardiovascular
Myeloid/blood

: HRT

//

//, /,

, drug (///),

: VAS

(a:////,v:////)////

////, /,

, drug (+//////)

: MYL

/ (, , , ),

///, /,

drug (//), ,

This article was sourced from Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. World Heritage Encyclopedia content is assembled from numerous content providers, Open Access Publishing, and in compliance with The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR), Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Public Library of Science, The Encyclopedia of Life, Open Book Publishers (OBP), PubMed, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and USA.gov, which sources content from all federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government publication portals (.gov, .mil, .edu). Funding for USA.gov and content contributors is made possible from the U.S. Congress, E-Government Act of 2002.
 
Crowd sourced content that is contributed to World Heritage Encyclopedia is peer reviewed and edited by our editorial staff to ensure quality scholarly research articles.
 
By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. World Heritage Encyclopedia™ is a registered trademark of the World Public Library Association, a non-profit organization.
 



Copyright © World Library Foundation. All rights reserved. eBooks from World eBook Library are sponsored by the World Library Foundation,
a 501c(4) Member's Support Non-Profit Organization, and is NOT affiliated with any governmental agency or department.