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A cardiac murmur is the noise or bruit caused by blood in passage through a normal or abnormal vessel, valve or aperture and may be of organic significance. The important point in management is to evaluate if a murmur is significant of an organic lesion. This evaluation becomes even more important when the patient presents with symptoms that might relate to a cardiac lesion; such symptoms as breathlessness, heart failure, syncope or angina being of particular note.
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© 1986 C F. P Wharton and A Archer
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Wharton, C.F.P., Archer, A.R. (1986). Cardiac Murmurs. In: Cardiology. Management of Common Diseases in Family Practice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7309-4_7
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