title: Sounds and pulses as aids to cardiac diagnosis.
abstract: Areas of auscultation are reviewed. Heart sounds, clicks, snaps, and murmurs are discussed as they appear in various cardiac problems, particularly with respect to their usefulness in differential diagnosis.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000175:diagnosis; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006326:Heart Auscultation; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006337:Heart Murmurs; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000175:diagnosis; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis; D006347:Heart Sounds; D006801:Humans; D007702:Kinetocardiography; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000175:diagnosis; D008945:Mitral Valve Prolapse / Q000175:diagnosis; D010701:Phonocardiography; D011666:Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis