Did you know that a baby can be born with a little hole in his heart? It's a common heart problem in newborn babies called Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) that occurs when there is a gap between the ...

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 ...

Your baby's heart murmur was probably picked up at her routine developmental when her doctor listened to her chest and heart with a stethoscope. The word murmur simply describes the noise made by ...

How often does a child, when at the pediatrician's office for a checkup, find the stethoscope an object of fascination? The doctor explains to the child that the instrument is used to listen for the ...

Heart murmur that resolves when a child moves from a supine to a standing position can reliably rule out pathologic heart murmurs in pediatric patients, a study found. Implementing this low-cost ...