CA Bates info Flashcards
Angina Pectoris
- Process
- Location
- Quality
- Severity
- Timing
- Factors that aggravate
- Factors that relieve
- associated symptoms
- Process: temporary mycocardial ischemia, usually secondary to coronary artherosclerosis
- Location: Retrosternal or across the anterior chest, sometimes radiating to the shoulders, arms, neck, lower jaw or upper abdomen
- Quality: Pressing, squeezing, tight, heavy, occasionally burning
- Severity: Mild to moderate, sometimes perceived as discomfort rather than pain
- Timing: usually 1-3 min but up to 10 min. prolonged episodes up to 20 min
- Factors that aggravate: Exertion, espeially in the cold; meals; emotional stress. May occur at rest.
- Factors that relieve: Rest, nitroglycerin
- associated symptoms: sometime dyspnea, nausea, sweating
Myocardial Infarction
- Process
- Location
- Quality
- Severity
- Timing
- Process: prolonged myocardial ischemia, resulting in irreversible muscle damage or necrosis
- Location: Retrosternal or across the anterior chest, sometimes radiating to the shoulders, arms, neck, lower jaw or upper abdomen
- Quality: Pressing, squeezing, tight, heavy, occasionally burning
- Severity: Often but not always a severe pain
- Timing: 20 min to several hours
Pericarditis
- Process (2) and then explain on these points for both processes!!!!
- Location
- Quality
- Severity
- Timing
- Factors that aggravate
- Factors that relieve
- associated symptoms
- Process 1: irritation of parietal pleura adjacent to the pericardium
- Location: Retrosternal or left preordial, may radiate to the tip of eft shoulder
- Quality: sharp, knifelike
- Severity: often severe
- Timing: perisitent
- Factors that aggravate: breathing, chaining position, coughing, lying down, sometime swallowing
- Factors that relieve: sitting forward may relieve it
- associated symptoms: seen in autoimmune disorders, post-myocardial infarction, viral infection, chest irradiation
- Process 2: mechanism unclear
- Location: retrosternal
- Quality: crushing
- Severity: Severe
- Timing: persistent
- associated symptoms: of the underlying illness
Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm
- Process
- Location
- Quality
- Severity
- Timing
- Factors that aggravate
- associated symptoms
- Process: a splitting within the layers of the aortic wall, allowing passage of blood to dissect a channel
- Location: anterior chest, radiating to the neck, back, or abdomen
- Quality: ripping, tearing
- Severity: very severe
- Timing: Abrupt onset, early peak, perisistent for hours or more
- Factors that aggravate: Hypertention
- associated symptoms: If thoracic, hoarseness, dysphagia, also syncope, hemiplegia, paraplegia
tracheobronchitits
- Process
- Location
- Quality
- Severity
- Timing
- Factors that aggravate
- Factors that relieve
- associated symptoms
- Process: inflammation of trachea and large bronchi
- Location: upper sternal or on either side of the sternum
- Quality: burning
- Severity: mile to moderate
- Timing: variable
- Factors that aggravate: coughing
- Factors that relieve: lying on the involved side may relieve it
- associated symptoms: cough
Pleuritic Chest Pain
- Process
- Location
- Quality
- Severity
- Timing
- Factors that aggravate
- Associated symptoms
- Process: Inflammation of the parital pleura, as in pleurisy, pneumonia, pulmonary infarction, or neoplasm
- Location: chest wall overlying the process
- Quality: sharp, knifelike
- Severity: often severe
- Timing: perisitent
- Factors that aggravate: deep inspiration, coughing, movements of the trunk
- Associated symptoms: of the underlying illness
Reflex Esophagitis
- Process
- Location
- Quality
- Severity
- Timing
- Factors that aggravate
- Factors that relieve
- associated symptoms
- Process: inflamm of esophageal mucosa by reflux of gastric acid
- Location: retrosternal, may radiate to abck
- Quality: bringing, maybe sqeezing
- Severity: mile-severe
- Timing: variable
- Factors that aggravate: large meal, bending over, lying down
- Factors that relieve: antacids, belching
- associated symptoms: sometimes regurgitiation, dysphagia
Diffuse esophageal spasm
- Process
- Location
- Quality
- Severity
- Timing
- Factors that aggravate
- Factors that relieve
- associated symptoms
- Process: motor dysfunction of the esophageal muscle
- Location: retro sternal, may radiate toback, arms, jaw
- Quality: sqeezing
- Severity: mild-severe
- Timing: variable
- Factors that aggravate: swallowing food or cold liquid, emotional stress
- Factors that relieve: sometimes nitro
- associated symptoms: dysphagia
Chest wall pain=
COSTOCHONDRITIS
- Process
- Location
- Quality
- Severity
- Timing
- Factors that aggravate
- associated symptoms
- Process: variable, often unclear
- Location: below the left breast or along the costal cartilages
- Quality: stabbing, sticking or dull aching
- Severity: variable
- Timing: fleeting to hours or days
- Factors that aggravate: movements of chest, trunk, arms
- associated symptoms: often local tenderness
Anxiety
- Process
- Location
- Quality
- Severity
- Timing
- Factors that aggravate
- associated symptoms
- Process: unclear
- Location: precordial, below the left breat, or acors the anterior chest
- Quality: stabbing, sticking, or dull aching
- Severity: variable
- Timing: fleeting to hours or days
- Factors that aggravate: may follow effort, emotional stress
- associated symptoms: Breathlessness, palpittions, weakness, anxiety
Left-sided Heart Failure
- Process
- Timing
- Factors that aggravate
- Factors that relieve
- associated symptoms
- setting
- Process: Elevated pressure in pulmonary capillary bed with transduction of fluid into intersitial spaces and alveoli, decreased compliance (increased stiffness) of the lungs, increased work of breathing
- Timing: Dyspnea may progress slowly, or suddenly as ina cute pulmonary edema
- Factors that aggravate: exertion, lying down
- Factors that relieve: Rest, sitting up, through dyspnea may become persistent
- associated symptoms: often cough, orthopnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, sometimes wheezing
- Setting: history of heart disease or its predisposig factors
what ECG pattern and usual resting rate is related with Fast rate ( >100)
- Sinus tachycardia: 100-180
- Supraventricular (arterial or nodal) tachycardia : 150-250
- Atrial flutter with a regular ventricular response: 100-175
- Ventricular tachycardia: 110-250
What is the ECG pattern and usual resting heart rate with a normal rate (60-100)
- normal sinus rhythm: 60-90
- second degree AV block: 60-100
- Atrial lutter with a regular ventricular response: 75-100
What is the ECG pattern and usual resting rate of a slow rate ( <60 )
- sinus bradycardia: <60
- second degree AV block: 30-60
- complete heart block: <40
Define Sporadic
premature or extra beats at random intervals, but normal underlying rhythm: ie. atrial or ventricular premature contractions, sinus arrhythmia
Define: Regularly irregular
regular pattern of cadences: ie. ventricular tigeminy
Define: irregularly irregular
no discernible regularity: ie. atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter
Sporadic sinus arrhythmia
- rhythm
- heart sounds
- rhythm: heart varies cyclically, usually speeding up with inspiration andslowing down with expiration
- Heart sounds: notmal, although S1 may vary with the heart rate.
Atrial or Nodal Premature Contractions (supraventricular)
- rhythm
- heart sounds
- rhythm: beat of atrial or nodal origin comes earlier than the enxt expected normal beat. a pasue follows, and then the rhythm resumes
- heart sounds: S1 may differ in intensity from the S1 of normal beats, and S2 may be decreased
Sporadic or regularly irrefular Ventricular Premature Contractions (ventricular bigeminy or trigeminy)
- rhythm
- heart sounds
- Rhythm: beat of ventricular origin comes earlier than the enxt expected normal beat. a pause follows, and the rhythm resumes
- Heart sounds: S1 may differ in intensity from the S1 of the normal beats, and S2 may be decreased. Both sounds are likely to be split
irregularly irregular atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter with varying AV block
- rhythm
- heart sounds
- Rhythm: ventricular rhythm is totally irregular, although short runs of the irregular ventricular rhythm may seem regular
- heart sounds: S1 varies in intensity
this picture is relating to the next couple cards. It can be found on page 393 in the Bates book!
just a picture for help
Abnormalities of the Arterial Pulse and pressure waves:
NORMAL
the pulse pressure is appox 30-40 mm Hg. pusle contour is smooth and rounded. (notch on descending slope of the pulse wave is not palpable)
Abnormalities of the Arterial Pulse and pressure waves:
small, weak pusle
definition
casues (2)
Pulse pressure is diminished, and the pulse feels weak and small. upstroke may feel slowed, peak prolonged.
causes include:
- decreased stroke volume, as in hart fialure, hypovolemia, and severe aortic stenosis
- increased peripheral resistance, as in exposure to cold and severe heart failure
Abnormalities of the Arterial Pulse and pressure waves:
Large, bounding pulses
definition
what does the pulse feel like?
causes (3)
pulse pressure is increased, and pusle feels strong and bounding. rise and fall may be rapid and peak may be brief
causes include:
- increased stoke volume, decreased peripheral resistnace, or both, as in fever, anemia, hyperthyroidism, aortic regurg, arteriovenous fistulas, patent ductus arteriosis
- incresed stroke volume because of slow heart rates, as in bradycardia and complete heart block
- decreased compliance (increased stiffness) of the aortic walls, as in aging or artherosclerosis
Abnormalities of the Arterial Pulse and pressure waves:
Bisferiens Pulse
definition
causesn (3)
Bisferiens Pulse is an increased pulse is an increased arterial pulse with a double systolic peak.
casues include:
- pure aortic regurg
- combined aortic stenosis and regurg
- and, though less commonly palpable, hypertorphic cardiomyopathy
Abnormalities of the Arterial Pulse and pressure waves:
Pulsus Alternans
what can it be detected by?
what does it indicate?
what accompanies it
amplitude from beat to beat even though the rhythm is basically regular (must be for you to make this judgment). when the difference between stronger and weaker beats is slight, it can de detected only by sphygmomanometry.
Pulses alternans indicates left ventricular failure and is usually accompanied by a left sided S3.
Abnormalities of the Arterial Pulse and pressure waves:
Bigeminal Pulse
what migh this mimic?
definition?
tell me about the stroke volume?
this disorder of rhythm may mimic pulsus alternans.
a bigeminal pulse is caused by a normal beat alternating with a premature contraction.
the stroke volume of the premature beat is diminshed in relation to that of the normal beats, and the pulse varies in amplitude accodingly
Abnormalities of the Arterial Pulse and pressure waves:
Paradoxical pulse
how can it be detected?
when is a blood pressure cuff needed?
what is systolic pressure during inspiration?
what is this found in?
what is it sometimes notd in?
- Paradoxical pulse may be detected by a palpable decrease in the pulse’s amplitude on quiet inspiration.
- if the sign is less pronounced, a blood pressure cuff is needed
- systolic pressure decreases by more than 10 mmHg during inspiration
- a paradoxical pulse is found in pericardial tamponade and frequently in exacerbations of asthma and COPD.
- sometime noted in constrictive pericaditis
Heart sounds
Normal variations (2 types)
- S1 is softer than S2 at the base (right and left 2nd interspaces)
- s1 is often but not alwys louder than S2 at the apex
Heart sounds
Accentuated S1
(2 types it is accentuated in)
S1 is accentuated in:
- tachycardia, rhythms with a short PR interval, and high cardiac output states (ie. exercise, anemia, hyperthryoidism)
- mitral stenosis
in these conditions the mitral valve is still open wide at the onset of ventricular systole and then closes quicikly
Heart sounds
Diminshed S1
what is is diminshed in?
what has the mitral valve had time for?
what are 2 other conditions the S1 is also diminshed in?
S1 is diminshed in first-degree heart block (delayed conduction from atria to ventricles).
here the mitral valve has had time after atrial contraction to float back into an almost closed position before ventricular contraction shuts it. it closes more quietly.
S1 is also diminished:
- when the mitral valve is calcified and relatively immobile, as in mital regurg
- when left ventricular contractibility is markedly reduced, as in heart failure or coronary heart disease
Heart sounds
Varying S1
2 things that cause varies in the intensity?
which vlave is in carying positions furing these situations?
therefore what varies?
S1 varies in intensity
- in complete heart block, when atria and ventricles are beating independently of each other
- in any totally irregular rhythm (ie. a. fib)
- in these situations, the mitral valve is in varying positions before being shut by ventriuclar contraction.
- therefore its closure varies in loudness.
Heart sounds
Split S1
- Where might the split occur and what happens for it to be heard?
- where is it heard?
- what else should you consider?
- what two conditions would abnormal splitting be heard in?
- S1 may be split normally along the lower left sternal border where the tricuspid componenet, often too faint to be heard, becomes louder
- split may smoetimes be heard at the apex
- but consider also an S4, aortic ejection sound, and an early systolic click
- abnormal splitting of both heart sounds may be heard in right bundle branch block and in premature ventricular contractions.
Heart sounds
Physiologic splitting
Where do you listen for this and in which heart sound?
how does pulmonic component of S2 usually sound?
so then what is S2 usually a single sound derived from?
what accentuated splitting?
when does it disappear?
what about younger patients?
- listen for physiologic splitting of S2 in the 2nd or 3rd intercostal space
- pulmonic component of S2 is usually too faint to be heard at the apex or aortic area,
- where S2 is a single sound derived from aortic valve closure alone.
- normal splitting is accentuated by inspiration and usually disappears on expiration
- in younger patients, S2 may not become single on expiration… it may merge when the patient sits up
Heart Sounds
Wide splitting
what is this referring to?
what can it be caused by?
what 2 things can it be caused by? and give examples please..
- wide splitting of S2 refers to an increase in the usual splitting that persists throughout the respirtory cycle.
- can be caused by :
- delayed closure of the pulmonic valve
- ie. pulmonic stenosis, right BBB
- right bundle branch block can also cause splitting of S1 into its mitral and tricuspid components
- caused by early closure of the aortic valve
- as in mitral regurg
- delayed closure of the pulmonic valve
Heart Sounds
Fixed splitting
what is this referring to?
what does it occur in? (2)
- refers to wide spliting that does not vary with respiration.
- occurs in:
- atrial spetal defect
- right ventricular failure
Heart Sounds
Paradoxical or reversed splitting
what does this refer to?
what is abnormally delayed ? and what follows what in expiration?
what makes the split disappear?
what is the most common cause?
- refers to splitting that appears on expiration and disappears on inspiration
- closure of aortic valve is abnormally delayed as that A2 follows P2 in expiration.
- normal inspiratory delay of P2 makes the split disapear
- most common cause:
- left bundle branch block
Where is increased intensity of A2 heard?
what does it occur in (2)? WHY?
Why would you have decreased or absent A2?
What about if A2 is inaudible?
A2 is usually heard in the right 2nd interspace
WHAT DOES IT OCCUR IN?
- systemic hypertension
- because of increased pressure load
- aortic root is dilated
- because the aortic valve is then closer to the chest wall
Decreased or absent A2 in right 2nd interspace noted in calcific aortic stenosis because of valve immobility
IF A2 IS INAUDIBLE? no splitting is heard
Increased intensity of P2
what do you suspect?
and other causes?
what is the meaning of “accentuated”?
Dereased intensity of P2
what is is from?
what else?
what if P2 is inaudible?
INCREASED INTENSITY OF P2
- When P2 is equal or louder than A2, suspect PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- other causes: dilated pulmonary artery, atrialseptal defect
- Accentuated: when a split in S2 is heard widely, even at the apex and the right base, P2 is accentuated.
DECREASED INTENSITY OF P2
- from the increased anteroposterior diameter of the chest assoicated with aging
- result from: pulmonic stenosis
- if P2 is inaudible, no splitting is heard
Extra Heart sounds in Systole
Early systolic ejection sounds
when does it occur? with opening of what?
what does it sound like (3 qualities to hit on)?
what is it better heard with
what does this indicate?
- occur shortly after S1, coincident with opening of the aoritc and pulmonic valves
- high pitch, have a sharp, clicking quality
- better heard with the diaphragm of the stethoscope
- ejection sound indicated cardiovascular disease
Extra Heart sounds in Systole
Aortic ejection sound
where do you listen for this?
where is it louder?
what does it vary with?
what may it be accompanied with?
- listen for it at the base and apex
- louder in apex
- does not vary with respiration
- may accompany:
- dilated aorta, or aortic valve disease from congenital stenosis or a bicuspid aortic valve
Extra Heart sounds in Systole
Pulmonic ejection sound
when is this heard best?
what may you be hearing when this is loud?
when does intensity decrease?
what are the causes (3)?
- heard best in the 2nd and 3rd interspaces
- when S1, usually relativly soft in this area, appears to be loud, you may be hearing a pulmonic ejection sound
- intensity often decreases with inspiration
- casues include:
- dilatation of the pulmonary artery
- pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonic stenosis
Extra Heart sounds in Systole
Systolic clicks
- what is this caused by?
- what is Mitral valve prolapse?
- how many people does it effect in population?
- men or women?
- when are the clicks heard during systole?
- how many clicks
- where are they heard?
- what is their pitch
- what part of the stethoscope do you use?
- what is the click followed by?
- and what is that from?
- what does the murmur do conscerning S2?
- are the findings consistent with this?
- squatting vs. standing?
- usually caused by MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE
-
mitral valve prolapse: abnormal systolic ballooning of part of the mitral valbe into the left atrium from both leaflet redundancy and elongation of the chordae tenineae
- affects about 2-3% of the general popilation
- equal prevelance in men and women
- clicks are usually mid or late systolic
- clicks are usually single
- heard medical to the apex (or at the apex) but also at the lower left sternal border
- high pictched
- listen with diaphragm
- click is followed by late systolic murmur fromm mitral regurgitation
- murmur usually crescendos up to S2
- finding usually varies from time to time and often changes with body position
- squatting delays the click and murmur VERSUS standing moves them closer to S1
Extra Heart sounds in Diastole
opening snap
- what type of sound
- what is is produced by?
- where is it heard best?
- what happens when it is loud?
- what is it mistaken with ?
- what will help distinguish it from S2?
- what part of the stethoscope is used?
- very early diastolic sound
- produced by the opening of a stenotic mitral valve
- heard best just medial to the apex and along the lower left sternal border
- when loud= an opening snap raadiates to the apex and to the pulmonic area
- may be mistaken for the pulmonic component of a split S2
- high pitch and snapping quality help distinguish it from S2
- use diaphragm
Extra Heart sounds in Diastole
physiologic S3
- who is it frequently in, what age?
- what about pregnancy?
- when does it occur?
- what is it later than?
- what does it sound like/pitch? (2 words)
- where is it heard best?/ and in what position?
- what part of the stethoscope?
- frequently in children and in young adults to the age of 35-40
- common during last trimester of pregnancy
- occuring early in diastole during rapid ventricular filling
- later than an opening snap
- dull and low in pitch
- heard best at the apex in left lateral decubitis position
- bell of the sethoscope should be used with very light pressure
Extra Heart sounds in Diastole
Pathologic S3
- what is another name for this?
- what does it sound like?
- what do you need to have S3 be pathologic?
- what does it arise from?
- when does it occur in diastole?
- what are the causes (3)
- where is left sided S3 heard? What position?
- where is right sided S3 heard? what position? and what position is it louder in?
- what does the term gallop mean/come from? what does it sound like?
- also called ventricular gallop
- sounds similar to physiologic S3
- S3 in adults over the age of 40 is usually pathologic
- arises from high pressure and abrupt decleration of inflow across the mitral valve
- occurs at the end of rapid filling phase of diastole
- causes include:
- decreased myocardial contactility
- heart failure
- volume overloading of a ventricle, as in mitral or tricuspid regurgitation
- Left sided S3 is heard typically at the apex in the left lateral decubitis position
- Right sided S3 is heard along the lower left sternal border or below the xiphoid with the patient supine, and is louder on inspiration
- Term gallop comes from the cadence of 3 heart sounds, especially at rapid heart rates, and sounds like “kentucky”
Extra Heart sounds in Diastole
S4
- another name for S4
- what does this sound come right before?
- what does it sound like/pitch (2 characteristics)
- what part of the stethoscope do you use?
- what is this normal in (2 groups)
- what is this due to ?
- what is increased resistance related to?
- LEFT sided S4
- causes (4)
- where is it heard best? what position
- what does it sound like (specifc word)
- RIGHT sided S4
- is it common?
- where is it heard
- what does it get louder with?
- causes (2)
- what else is S2 associated with? (hint: relating to atria and ventricles)
- what does a delat seperate? and what does this cause?
- when is S4 never heard? and when does this occur?
- atrial sound or atrial gallop
- just before S1
- dull, low pitch
- use the bell
- normal in trained athletes and older age groups
- due to increased resistance to ventricular filling following atrial contraction
- increased resistance is related to decreased compliance (increased stiffness) of the ventricular myocardium
-
LEFT SIDED S4:
-
causes of left-sided s4 include:
- __hypertensive heart disease
- myocardial ischemia
- aortic stenosis
- cardiomyopathy
- Left sided S4 is heard best at apex in the left lateral position ….
- sounds like Tennessee
-
causes of left-sided s4 include:
-
RIGHT SIDED S4:
- Right sided S4 is less common
- heard along the lower left sternal border or below the xiphoid
- right sided S4 gets louder with inspiration
- causes of right sided S4:
- pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonic stenosis
- S4 may also be associated with delayed conduction between the atria and ventricles
- Delay seperates the normally faint atrial sound from the louder S1 and makes it audible
- S4 is never heard in the absence of atrial contraction, which occurs in atrial fibrillation
Quadruple rhythm
patient has both an S3 and an S4 produces a Quadruple rhythm of 4 heart sounds
summation gallop
at rapid heart rates, the S3 and S4 may merge into one loud extra heart sound : Summation gallop
Pansystolic (Holosytolic) murmurs
pathologic arising from blood flow from a chamber with high pressure to one of lower pressure, through a valve or other structure that should be closed. Murmur begins immediatly with S1 and continues up to S2
MITRAL REGURGITATION
- location?
- radiation?
- intensity? what is it associated with?
- pitch?
- Quality (2)?
- what does this not become louder in?
- what extra heart sound is in this? what does it reflect?
- how is ampical impulse affected (3)?
- Mechanism behind mitral regurgitation?
- location: apex
- Radiation: to left axilla, less often to the left sternal border
- Intensity: soft to loud; if loud associated with an apical thrill
- Pitch: medium-high
- Quality: Harsh, holosystolic
- does NOT become louder in inspiration
- apical S3, reflects volume overload of the left ventricle
- Apical impulse is increased in amplitude, laterally displaced, and may be sustained
- MECHANISM: when mitral valve fails to close fully in systole, blood regugitates from left ventricle to left atrium, causing murmur. this leakage creates volume overload on the left ventricle, with subsequent dilatation. several structural abnormalities cause this condition and finding may vary accordingly
TRICUSPID REGURGITATION
- location
- radiation
- intensity
- pitch
- quality (2 words)
- when will the intensity increase
- how is right ventricular impulse affected
- location: lower left sternal border
- Radiation: to the right of the sternum, to the xiphoid area, and perhaps to the left midclavicular line, but not into axilla
- intensity: variable
- Pitch: medium
- Quality: blowing, holosystolic
- the intensity may increase slightly with inspiration
- right ventricular impulse is increased in amplitude and may be sistained
- S3 may be audible along the lower left sternal border.
- jugular venous pressure is often elevated
- MECHANISM: tricuspid valve fails to close fully in systole, blood regurgitates from right ventricle to right atrium, prodicing murmur. most common cause is right ventricular failure and dilatation, with resulting enlargement of the tricuspid orifice, often initiated by pulmonary hypertension or left ventricula failure.
VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT
- location
- radiation
- intensity
- pitch
- quality
- how is S2 obscured
- what causes findings to vary (2)
- Mechanism
- location: 3rd, 4th, 5th left interspaces
- radiation: often wide
- intensity: often very loud, with a thrill
- pitch: high, holosystolic
- quality: often harsh
- S2 may be obscured by the loud murmur
- findings vary with the severity of the defect and with associated lesions
- MECHANISM: ventricular spetal defect is a congenital abnormality in which blood flows from the relatively high pressure left ventricle into the low pressure right ventricle through a hole. the defect may be accompanied by other abnormalities, but an uncomplicated lesions is described here.
Midsystolic murmur
common?
3 types?
when do they peak?
crecendo-decrescendo
- midsystolic ejection mururs are the most common kinda of heart murmur
TYPES:
- innocent: without any detectable physiologic or structural abnormality
- Physiologic: from physiologic changes in body metabolism
- pathologic: arising from a structural abnormality in the heart or great vessels
- midsystolic murmurs tend to peak near midsystole and usually stop before S2.
- The crecendo-decrescendo or “diamond” shape is not always audible but the gap between the murmur and S2 helps to distinguish midsystolic from pansystolic murmurs
Midsystolic Murmurs
INNOCENT MURMUR
- location
- radiation
- intensity
- pitch
- quality
- when does it decrease or disappear
- associated findings? if not, what is found (4)?
- what can sometimes be present?
- mechanism
- location: 2nd to 4th left interspaces between the left sternal border and the apex
- radiation: little
- intensity: Grade 1 to 2, possibly 3
- pitch: soft to medium
- quality: variable
- usually decreases or disappears on sitting
- no associated findings:
- normal splitting
- no ejection sounds
- no diastolic murmurs
- no palpable evidence of ventricular enlargement
- sometimes a innocent and pathologic murmur are present
- MECHANISM: turbulent blood flow, probably generated by ventricular ejection of blood into the aorta from the left and occasionally the right ventricle.
- very common in children and young audlts- may also be heard in older people.
- no underyling cardiovascular disease
Midsystolic Murmurs
PHYSIOLOGIC MURMURS
- murmur
- location
- radiation
- intensity
- pitch
- quality
- what makes it decrease/disappear?
- Murmur is similar to innocent murmurs
- location: 2nd to 4th left interspaces between the left sternal border and the apex
- radiation: little
- intensity: Grade 1 to 2, possibly 3
- pitch: soft to medium
- quality: variable
- usually decreases or disappears on sitting
- MECHANISM: turbulence due to a temporary increase in blood flow in predisposing conditions such as anemia, pregnancy, dever, hyperthryoidism