Differential diagnosis and approach to a heart murmur in term infants.
This article reviews the differential diagnosis of and approach to a heart murmur in the term infant. After addressing important aspects of the history, physical examination, and cardiac examination,the most common structural cardiac lesions generating a heart murmur in the term infant are discussed.
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, The Medical College of Wisconsin, 9000 West Wisconsin Avenue, P.O. Box 1997, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA. mafrom@mcw.edu
Michele A
MA
Frommelt
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006326:Heart Auscultation; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D006337:Heart Murmurs / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn