types of heart murmurs
Last reviewed 01/2018
This section contains information concerning different types of murmur that may be heard.
Note, with reference to valvular lesions that:
- systolic murmurs imply incompetence of atrioventricular valve or stenosis/sclerosis of semilunar valve.
- diastolic murmurs imply stenosis of atrioventricular valve or incompetence of semilunar valve