A baby’s heart begins to form just weeks after conception, and while most hearts develop perfectly, congenital heart defects remain the most common birth anomalies. Among these, a Ventricular Septal ...

When a doctor listens to the heart of a person with a heart murmur, they may hear a whooshing, swishing, humming, or rasping sound. This is due to rapid, turbulent blood flow through the heart.

Aim: To find out the significance of murmurs heard during infancy. Methods: Retrospective audit of all infants with newly heard murmurs referred from April 2007 to October 2009 to cardiac clinics in ...

Just the thought of a heart murmur in your child may be enough to invoke dreadful visions of heart disease and dysfunction. However, in most cases the murmur is entirely innocent and will not stop ...

A heart murmur is, as the name suggests, a sound that occurs during a heartbeat, caused by rapid, turbulent blood flow through the heart. Characterised as a whooshing or swishing sound, these heart ...