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Heart Murmurs Dogs - Articles
Heart murmur
by
heru m.
Posted
Tue 25 Jan 2011 12:24am
It can be very hard to determine if a heart murmur is present when listening to the chest of an excited dog. Respiratory sounds can mimic a heart murmur when respiration is rapid enough to approximate the heartrate.
Heart murmurs vary widely in their importance. Hearing a heart murmur in a dog that seems normal in all other respects doesn
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Pediatric heart murmurs - when are they serious?
by
Dr. John Z.
Posted
Sun 24 Jan 2010 12:00am
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Heart murmurs in children may be more common than you think. A pediatric cardiologist explains below when to be concerned and when to wait.
“Finding out that your child has a heart murmur causes a great deal of anxiety,” said Dr. Louis Bezold, associate professor of pediatrics and chief of the division of pediatric cardiology, University of Kentucky
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What happens when you have a heart murmur and ignore a bad tooth filling?
by
Saundra G.

Posted
Fri 13 Nov 2009 10:00pm
This is a true story told to me by the wife of a dental patient with a heart murmur (mostly in her words).
Three months ago my husband lost part of a filling and used... with a heart murmur.
2. He started sleeping a lot more, not wanting to do too much. He just assumed he stayed up too late.
3. Then he started getting low grade fevers that would only
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Paucis Verbis card: When murmurs need echo evaluation
by
Michelle Lin
Posted
Fri 17 Sep 2010 12:00am
Have you been in a situation where you are the first to detect a cardiac murmur in a patient? If you are hearing it in a busy, loud Emergency Department, I find that it's at least a grade III.
Should you order an echocardiogram for further outpatient evaluation? It depends on the grade and characteristic of the murmur, in addition
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Mechanism of Austin flint murmur
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Dr. Sangareddi V.
Posted
Thu 16 Sep 2010 10:16am
The murmur of Austin flint is has become an immortal cardiac auscultatory sign even in this era of hi tech cardiology. This is our humble tribute to the physicians... .This generates a mid and late diastolic murmur from the mitral valve which is heard well in the mitral area.
This was confirmed 100 years later as anterior mitral leaflet flutter
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We Heart Books and Dogs
by
Kel
Posted
Tue 22 Feb 2011 5:16pm
Here is Bridgette attempting to eat some cereal before her nap. I hope it stays down. Nothing like having your daughter aspirate on her own vomit! It's a most unpleasant way to wake up. And since we already took a shower today too (she woke up covered head to toe in poop), staying clean for 12 hours would be nice.
So these are her ...
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Dogs Leave Pawprints On Our Hearts
by
Laurie P.
Posted
Wed 01 Oct 2008 9:17pm
had been grieving the loss of Brutus and my heart was broken because I missed him too. I wanted to "fix" it and even bought another puppy last week for Chris. But we ended up taking it back. Chris appreciated the fact that I wanted to make him feel better but he just wasn't ready for another dog. So, he decided to wait until next year to get another
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