BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Musical murmurs (MMs), sometimes called seagull cry, goose cry, honks, or cooing murmur, are murmurs with a single frequency that sounds like a musical tone. Doppler detections usually show mirror-image parallel strings or bands of low to moderate frequency. Musical murmurs are mostly described in cardiac murmurs and have seldom been mentioned in cerebrovascular disease. ...

A logic-based mnemonic for the auscultory diagnosis of nonpathologic murmurs, which I developed for teaching medical students and house staff, is presented with the hope of improving the auscultatory skills of primary care pediatric practitioners. The objective is positive identification of nonpathologic murmurs rather than diagnosis by exclusion. The auscultatory features of these murmurs are ...

In a prospective study murmurs increased in intensity with carotid sinus pressure in 18 of 26 patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) (sensitivity, 69.2 percent for the 26 patients, 85.7 percent for the 21 patients in whom heart rate and blood pressure decreased with carotid sinus pressure). On the other hand, the murmur remained constant or decreased in all but one of 104 ...

The purpose of this work was to determine how reliable a guide an apical systolic murmur can be to the finding at mitral valvotomy of incidental mitral regurgitation complicating dominant mitral stenosis. The history of the systolic murmur in mitral stenosis is a confused one, since general agreement was not reached about the timing of systolic and diastolic murmurs in mitral stenosis for nearl...

Apexcardiograms were systematically recorded serially in 40 patients after acute myocardial infarction, in an additional 21 patients with proven aneurysms, and in 18 patients with good ventricular performance following myocardial infarction. Abnormalities of the "A" wave and systolic waves of the apexcardiogram correlated well with akinesia or dyskinesia proven by cinefluoroscopic and cineangio...

Except for those sounds that mark the systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels, the murmurs (luring sphygmomanometry are generally ignored. Our studies suggest that the intensity and duration of these murmurs provide an appraisal of the blood flow into the part beyond the cuff under certain conditions. T HE sounds heard at the brachial artery distal to the point of compression by the sphygm...

In 20 newborn thoroughbred foals cardiovascular examinations were made on the heart rate and detailed auscultation of the cardiovascular murmurs, which were also recorded by phonocardiography, was conducted between birth and two weeks of age. A transient bradycardia, which was slower than the near-term fetal heart rate, was noted in neonates immediately after birth. Rapid and progressive increa...