Identifying Aortic Insufficiency Aortic insufficiency is an early decrescendo murmur that is loudest at base or left lower sternal border.

Careful auscultation of heart murmurs is an extremely valuable tool in the diagnosis of many cardiac conditions.

IT is an established clinical observation that certain patients with aortic regurgitation have an apical presystolic murmur without mitral stenosis demonstrable at autopsy. This phenomenon was orig ...

Diastolic murmurs include aortic and pulmonic regurgitation (early diastolic), and mitral or tricuspid stenosis (mid-late diastolic). Tricuspid stenosis is very rare and is discussed further in ...

An aortic stenosis murmur is a sound the heart makes due to a narrowing of the aortic heart valve. Learn more about aortic stenosis murmur here.

Aortic regurgitation can also cause a heart murmur. This happens when the aortic valve doesn’t properly close between heartbeats. This can cause blood to flow backward.

For example, while the Valsalva maneuver can augment a murmur of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, it can actually soften a murmur associated with aortic stenosis or mitral regurgitation.

Of the subjects with Duroziez's murmur 1 had severe aortic insufficiency, 1 a large patent ductus arteriosus, and the third aortic insufficiency with a defect of the ventricular septum.

Advanced murmurs included bicuspid aortic valve, mitral valve prolapse, combined aortic stenosis and regurgitation, and combined mitral stenosis and regurgitation.

Participants chose to be tested on a set of basic murmurs, on a set of advanced murmurs, or both. Basic murmurs included aortic stenosis, aortic, regurgitation, mitral stenosis, mitral regurgitation.

This will increase left-sided regurgitant murmurs, such as aortic regurgitation (an excellent maneuver), mitral regurgitation, or ventricular septal defect.