Is heart murmur a serious problem?

A heart murmur is a clinical finding that is most often discovered during occasional visits, and until then the carrier is unaware of it. So it is not actually a disease or a symptom, but rather a noise audible to the specialist by auscultating the heart with a phonendoscope.

Normally, the flow of blood within blood vessels (arteries and veins) or heart chambers (atria and ventricles) occurs silently by so-called laminar flow, through conduits with smooth walls and no obstructions to flow.

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Calcaneal spur: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

Calcaneal spur is an inflammatory condition of the heel. Specifically, it is anexostosis, which is a benign neoformation of bone tissue that develops in the heel area. The occurrence of

Thyroid slowed down?

The thyroid is a small gland that is responsible for regulating metabolism, that is, the rate at which food intake is converted into energy. If thyroid activity slows down too

Cutaneous angioma

Skin angiomas are mostly benign neoformations due to the abnormal cellular development of sanguneous or lymphatic vessels. The most common form of cutaneous angioma is hemangioma, which consists of a proliferation

Mitral valve repair: new surgical instruments

A new surgical tool for mitral valve repair: simplifies valve repair, avoiding recourse to open-heart surgery Researchers studying this new device to repair the mitral valve report results on the

Cardiorespiratory arrest

In pediatric age, respiratory arrest often precedes cardiacarrest. The causes may be different: respiratory, cardiological, neurological, from shock, from drugs, from metabolic imbalances, or from environmental causes. The signs are:

Anemia

Anemia is the clinical condition in which the hemoglobin rate is less than the third percentile relative to the patient’s age group. Symptoms appear in relation to the rapidity of

Measuring blood pressure correctly, two methods compared

High blood pressure is the most important risk factor for very frequent and disabling diseases, such as myocardial infarction and stroke. It is important, for these reasons, to provide good

Vascular dementia, what it is and how it manifests itself

Vascular dementia refers to acute or chronic cognitive impairment due to diffuse or focal cerebral infarcts that are most often related to cerebrovascular disease. This type of dementia represents global,

Infectious diseases: tetanus

Tetanus is an acute noncontagious infectious disease caused by the bacterium Clostridium tetani. It is a Gram-positive bacillus that grows only in the absence of oxygen (i.e., it is anaerobic),

Convalescence and negativization in cytomegalovirus infections

To prevent CMV infections, usual disease prevention and prophylaxis are effective, then monitoring the patient during the administration of antiviral drugs to check the response of VCM infection.

RELATED PATHOLOGIES

Atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis is a pathological process that leads to the progressive formation of localized deposits composed mainly of fat and cholesterol and platelets (atheromas or atherosclerotic plaques) within the walls of

Cardiac Echodoppler

The echocardiogram, also known as echocardiography, is a diagnostic imaging technique based on the use of ultrasound, which is quick and easy to perform, harmless, painless, and low-cost, and because

Blow to the heart

A “heart murmur” is not in itself a pathology , but merely a signal that the blood inside the heart is flowing too fast or in a “disordered” manner, producing

Heart failure

Heart failure corresponds to a condition in which the heart is unable to receive and/or pump blood with sufficient force to the lungs and the rest of the body, due

Atrial fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation is the most common heart rhythm disorder in the Western world. In the United States it affects about three million people; in Italy, an estimated 600-700 thousand people

Peripheral arteriopathy obliterans

Peripheral arteriopathy obliterans is a vascular disease that affects the arteries, especially those in the legs, preventing the muscles and tissues from receiving adequate blood supply, resulting in symptoms of

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest corresponds to the interruption of the heart’s contraction and pumping action, resulting from a sudden and drastic alteration in its electrical activity (ventricular fibrillation). Cardiac arrest is an

Intracranial hypertension

Increased pressure within the head box may be related to cerebral edema or the presence of an intracranial expansive lesion, an obstruction of CSF circulation, or the association of these

Coronaropathy

The term coronary artery disease refers to chronic “distress” of the coronary arteries, the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle, in most cases brought about by atherosclerotic pathology

Aortic valvulopathy

When the aortic valve does not properly perform its function of pumping blood into the heart, an aortic disease condition occurs that also involves the left ventricle. Aortic valve disease

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