0 a condition in which unusual sounds can be heard in the heart, sometimes as a result of a fault in its structure --
All patients initially presented with either congestive heart failure, cyanosis, or a heart murmur.
Fifteen patients had a heart murmur, 11 of which were continuous.
All patients were asymptomatic and referred to the cardiology service for assessment of a heart murmur.
Examination at that time revealed a soft heart murmur.
Firstly, during the study period, we performed echocardiography in every neonate who had a heart murmur prior to discharge from the hospital.
She developed fever within the month, along with frontal headache and a new heart murmur.
She had cyanosis, clubbing and a grade 2/6 systolic heart murmur.
A congenital cardiac anomaly was thus far unsuspected, even though a soft systolic heart murmur had been known to exist since early childhood.
