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Wellness Info - Provides an overview of murmurs of the heart, discussing what it is, are they serious, and how they are treated.

American Heart Association - Looks at heart murmurs and their causes.
Meta Description: [ Heart murmurs are most often caused by defective heart valves. ]

Cardiac Auscultation - Ten heart sounds to listen to including a normal heart to compare sounds.
Meta Description: [ Cardiac Auscultation of Heart murmurs / CD, LISTOHEARMUR ]

Cardiothoracic Surgery of Savannah - Includes an explanation of how heart valves work, and audio files with the sounds of common heart valve murmurs.
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Children's Heart Institute - Among some of the topics discussed are, causes of innocent and non-innocent murmurs and physical signs present. Audio to experience the different sounds.
Meta Description: [ Learn about heart murmurs: what they are, what they sound like. Click and listen to what a heart murmur sounds like. ]

Family Practice Notebook: Heart Auscultation - Examination of valve murmurs. Detailed topics such as characteristics, timing, severity, causes and management.
Meta Description: [ Cardiovascular Medicine: Examination: EKG Wave U ]

Florida Thoracic and Cardiovascular Associates - Explains what a heart murmur is, about heart valves, how a normal heart works and problems. Includes audio of 5 different heart sounds.

404 Functional Heart Murmur - A brief discussion on this topic.
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404 Good Health Magazine - An article discussing heart murmurs in children with two doctors. Topics covered were some causes and treatment.

Heart Murmurs and Your Child - An article addressing the diagnoses of this disorder, as well as congenital heart defects, common heart defects and their treatment.
Meta Description: [ A heart murmur diagnosis is extremely common. Most murmurs are not a cause for concern and do not affect the child's health. ]

Heart Murmurs in Children: What Parents Should Know - What parents should know regarding a normal heart murmur, and what does it mean. Discusses when it is a sign of a problem.
Meta Description: [ Information for parents about heart murmurs in children from the American Academy of Family Physicians. ]

404 Heart Murmurs Rarely Life Threatening. - Dr. Miguel Quiñones speaks out about this disorder and its causes.

Landon Pediatric Foundation - Fred Leong M.D looks at common heart sounds and murmurs in infants, innocent murmurs, pathologic murmurs, and diastolic continuous murmurs. Audio as well to hear the heart sounds.

MEDLINEplus Medical Encyclopedia: Heart sounds - Article about the definition, alternative names, common causes in detail, what to expect from your doctor and test procedures of heart murmurs.

Murmurs of the Heart - Discussion by Daniel J. Waters, D.O., FCCP on the causes and diagnosing of this disorder.

Rush Children's Heart Center - In-depth look at how to evaluate a murmur, symptoms to look for, physical examination, auscultation, and features of the innocent murmur.
Meta Description: [ Rush Children's Hospital provides complete clinical services for the diagnosis and treatment of congenital and acquired heart disease in children and young adults. ]

School Nurse.com - An article examining how a young patient should be diagnosed and observed for detection heart murmurs. Whether to tell the parents or when to record it in the medical records is discussed.
Meta Description: [ School Health Alert, Published monthly since 1986, it keeps school nurses and other interested health professionals up-to-date on the latest developments in student health services, health education and safe school enviornment. ]

School of Nursing - Presented are audio of numerous heart sounds and murmurs.
Meta Description: [ Hear heart murmurs, heart sounds, and breath sounds to help with physical diagnosis ]

The Auscultation Assistant - Audio to differentiate the characteristics of heart murmurs and discussion of the different types of murmurs.

404 The Pediatric Bulletin - Details on characteristics of murmurs, supraclavicular systolic murmurs and innocent continuous murmurs.