MURMURS IN CHILDREN: A CLINICAL AND GRAPHIC STUDY IN 500 CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE
Authors: A A LUISADA, O M HARING, C ARAVANIS, L CARDI, E JONA, A B ZILLI
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1958)

Article1 March 1958MURMURS IN CHILDREN: A CLINICAL AND GRAPHIC STUDY IN 500 CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGEA. A. LUISADA, M.D., F.A.C.P., O. M. HARING, M.D., C. ARAVANIS, M.D., L. CARDI, M.D., E. JONA, M.D., A. B. ZILLI, M.D.A. A. LUISADA, M.D., F.A.C.P., O. M. HARING, M.D., C. ARAVANIS, M.D., L. CARDI, M.D., E. JONA, M.D., A. B. ZILLI, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-48-3-597 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptA century ago, auscultation of the heart led to recognition of adventitious sounds and murmurs which were explained as the result of heart disease. Medical opinion has differed widely since then, and three different thoughts have been entertained: (1) a murmur is always significant of abnormal conditions of the cardiovascular system; (2) no importance should be attached to murmurs; or (3) a murmur may or may not be significant, depending upon the area of audibility, loudness, duration, pitch, timbre and radiation.Controversies have been even more numerous in regard to children, who seem to present murmurs much more frequently than...Bibliography1. Levine SA: The systolic murmur. Its clinical significance, J. A. M. A. 101: 436, 1933. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. Luisada AA: The "functional" murmur: the laying to rest of a ghost (Editorial), Dis. of Chest 27: 579, 1955. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. WhiteAdamsCraib PDFDD: A note on cardiac murmurs. Recommendation for a revised terminology, Am. J. M. Sc. 203: 52, 1942. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. Sodeman WA: The systolic murmur, Am. J. M. Sc. 208: 106, 1944. Google Scholar5. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Received for publication January 16, 1957.From the Division of Cardiology of The Chicago Medical School at Mount Sinai Hospital.This study was made possible by a Teaching Grant of the National Heart Institute, U. S. Public Health Service, a research grant of the Chicago Heart Association, and grants of the Lasdon Foundation of New York and of the George Brandwein Foundation of Chicago.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Aldo A. Luisada, M.D., Director, Division of Cardiology, The Chicago Medical School, 2755 West Fifteenth Street, Chicago 8, Illinois. 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