The term 'cardiac murmur' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an extra or abnormal sound heard during a heartbeat. For example: The doctor heard a slight cardiac murmur during the patient's physical exam.
In many children and adults the presence of congenital heart disease is detected for the first time when a cardiac murmur is heard.
(If you only hear something during systolic, think about a carotid bruit or radiating cardiac murmur). A thyroid bruit is seen in Grave's disease from a proliferation of the blood supply when the thyroid enlarges.
A cardiac murmur may be detected and can be accompanied by a thrill [2].
Patients can be asymptomatic or present with palpitations, cardiac murmur, syncope, arrhythmias, symptoms of congestive heart failure, or sudden death.
Recurrence should be considered when new-onset arrhythmia or cardiac murmur is noted in a patient with a history of fibroma resection, especially without complete resection.
His preoperative evaluation for spinal canal stenosis revealed a cardiac murmur, which was diagnosed by transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) to be related to the presence of moderate to severe aortic stenosis (AS) (aortic valve area (AVA) 0.99 cm2, Vmax 3.87 m/s, peak pressure gradient (PG) 60 mmHg, mean PG 29 mmHg).
On physical examination, he had normal heart sounds without any cardiac murmurs.
Examination findings included the expected cardiac murmurs and mild expiratory wheeze.
A controlled intervention study concluded that five hundred repetitions of four basic cardiac murmurs significantly improved medical students' proficiency in recognizing basic cardiac murmurs.
Such descriptions included the detection of cardiac murmurs, after percussion and auscultation.
After a training period of four months, cardiac auscultation skills were evaluated using four patients with different cardiac murmurs.
