Benign Heart Murmur WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Benign Heart Murmur
Heart murmurs are unusual heart sounds that can be detected with a stethoscope. Most murmurs are completely harmless and do not mean you have a disease or disorder.1 Heart murmurs are common and usually benign in children, though in adults a murmur can indicate a heart valve problem.2 If you have a benign heart murmur, most likely you will not have any signs or symptoms.
Fast Facts:
- A heart murmur is not a disease.
- About 30% of children have an innocent heart murmur at some point.3
- Diagnostic testing may be done through chest x-ray, electrocardiogram, and echocardiogram.4
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Research Notes References
- ↑ Mayo Clinic: Heart Murmurs: Symptoms
- ↑ National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: What is a Heart Murmur?
- ↑ Aurora Health Care: Heart Murmur
- ↑ A.D.A.M. (via Healthline): Heart Murmurs and Other Sounds: Common Causes
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- Contributor: Rebecca Richards
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Nov. 11, 2009
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- Contributor: Rebecca Richards
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Abnormal Heart Sound, Unusual Heart Sound, Abnormal Murmur, Unusual Murmur, Unusual Heart Murmur, Benign Murmur, Harmless Heart Murmur, Harmless Murmur, Normal Murmur, Functional Murmur, Physiologic Heart Murmur, Physiologic Murmur, Flow Heart Murmur, Flow Murmur, Benign Heart Murmurs, Flow Heart Murmurs, Flow Murmurs, Functional Murmurs, Harmless Heart Murmurs, Harmless Murmurs, Normal Murmurs, Physiologic Heart Murmurs, Physiologic Murmurs
- Last update: Nov. 11, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
