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A murmur is heard during the heart listening exam, using a stethoscope held at different areas on the front of the chest as the heart beats. Heart murmurs can be heard in infants as well as older children and teens.
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More than half of all children have a heart murmur at some time in their lives and most heart murmurs don't mean anything is wrong. Doctors may call these "innocent," "functional," or "normal" murmurs. They are caused by blood rushing through the valves in a normal heart and are nothing to worry about.
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A heart murmur is just a noise that the blood makes as it flows through the heart. It's like the noise water makes when it flows through a hose. Many healthy people have heart murmurs. About 80 percent of all children have a heart murmur at some time.
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www.aafp.org/afp/990800ap/990800f.html
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Many normal children have heart murmurs, but most children do not have heart disease. An appropriate history and a properly conducted physical examination can identify children at increased risk for significant heart disease.
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www.aafp.org/afp/990800ap/558.html
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Information for parents about heart murmurs in children from the American Academy of Family Physicians. ... A heart murmur is a noise that the blood makes as it flows through the heart. It's like the noise water makes when it flows through a hose. Heart murmurs are common in children and are usually harmless.
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familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/heartdisea...
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Children frequently have heart murmurs. Most heart murmurs are innocent but some are caused by heart defects. Careful evaluation of the medical history and physical examination are critical in ... Routine supplementary diagnostic tests in children with heart murmurs are of limited value and are often misleading.
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/16892609
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OBJECTIVE: To assess the cost-effectiveness of various strategies to evaluate heart murmurs in children. ... Strategy 5 detects 95% of pathologic murmurs at $38,000 per additional case detected over strategy 1. The most effective, strategy 6, detects 100% of pathologic murmurs at $158,000 per additional case detected...
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/12378189
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How common are innocent murmurs? Innocent murmurs are very common! Some pediatric cardiologists estimate a heart murmur can be heard in 90 percent of children with anatomically normal hearts between the ages of 4-7 years.
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www.cincinnatichildrens.org/health/heart-encyclopedia/s...
www.cincinnatichildrens.org/health/heart-encyclopedia/signs/murmurs.htm
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Heart murmurs are a very common finding in children. Most of these are innocent heart murmurs, which are not associated with any problems in the heart. ... They do not require any treatment and children with innocent heart murmurs usually don't need to take antibiotics before dental procedures.
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www.keepkidshealthy.com/welcome/commonproblems/heartmur...
www.keepkidshealthy.com/welcome/commonproblems/heartmurmurs.html
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