Congenital heart disease (CHD) and invasive cardiac procedures are risk factors for infective endocarditis (IE) in children. IE with Achromobacter xylosoxidans is a rare case has high mortality rate. This report literature review aim to understand the factors, diagnosis, therapy, outcome of wirh xylosoxidans. We observed 14-months-old boy ventricular septal defect (VSD), history catheterization...

A dog or a cat has an incidentally detected heart murmur if the murmuris an unexpected discovery during a veterinary consultation that was not initially focused on the cardiovascular system. This document presents approaches for managing dogs and cats that have incidentally-detected heart murmurs, with an emphasis on murmur characteristics, signalment profiling, and multifactorial decision-maki...

In spite of numerous descriptions of the auscultatory and phonocardiographic findings in "adult" coarctation of the aorta (Reifenstein, Levine, and Gross, 1947; Wells, Rappaport, and Sprague, 1949; Brown et al., 1959; Cleland et al., 1956; Wood, 1956; Spencer, Johnston, and Meredith, 1958; Gasul, Arcilla, and Lev, 1966), no specific diagnostic auscultatory pattern has been outlined. The general...

Ijittle attention has been paid to the continuous parasternal murmur that moya occum. during pre-naney and that disappears after lactation. We have encountered 2 cases of this phenomenon. The nmurmnur probably arises from arteries supplying the breast. The inechanism of its production has not been established, but it may depend on s01Wf permanent anatomic anomaly. This benign murmur has special...

Takayasu's arteritis (TA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects large vessels, predominantly the aorta and its main branches, leading to vessel wall thickening, fibrosis and stenosis. Cardiac and vascular symptoms are also commonly present at disease onset. In TA with thoracic or abdominal involvement, although murmur can be present at physical examination, the pulse difference may be ...

The need to evaluate a patient with an incidentally-detected heart murmur depends on the client (e.g., cost, pre-existing notions of importance, concern/anxiety), the patient (features of the heart murmur, concurrent diseases or signs, lineage), and the veterinarian (confidence in the likely underlying cause based on examination alone, perception of severity of the cause). The specific approach...

A c'TPERclinical evaluation of patients with severe aortic insufficiency, it has become evideiit that differentiation of the Austin Flint murmur from that of imitral stenosis is possible iln the majority of cases.1-) If carefully searched for, all of our l)atients with severe aortic insufficiency have all apical diastolic ullll)le (so-called Auistin Flint murinur). By utilization of the clinica...

It is well known that a patent ductus arteriosus is commoner in women than in men (Wood, 1956), and longevity seems to be the prerogative of the woman. Fairley and Goodwin (1959) found that 5 per cent of their series of adults with this anomaly survived the age of 60, but noted that they were all women. This is a report ofa man aged 61 in whom a patent ductus arteriosus was diagnosed for the fi...

• Vol 8 • May 2006 Musical Murmur Cardiac murmur is defined as an audit tory vibration that is more prolonged than heart sounds and is characterized by int tensity (loudness), frequency (pitch), cont figuration (shape), as well as the quality, duration and direction of radiation, and timing related to the cardiac cycle [1]. In daily practice these auscultatory findings can be detected either by...

The age and sex of the patients and their presenting symptoms are shown in table 1. Two of the patients, cases 3 and 6, had a family history suggesting that the disease was familial. A murmur had been present before the age of 5 years in case 6, while the remainder of the patients had become aware of the presence of a heart murmur after age 12. Symptoms were moderate to severe in all patients e...