Chapter 18 - Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)»Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09)»Cardiac murmur, unspecified (R01.1)
R01.1
Cardiac murmur, unspecified
Related indications (MeSH) (2)
Heart sounds caused by vibrations resulting from the flow of blood through the heart. Heart murmurs can be examined by HEART AUSCULTATION, and analyzed by their intensity (6 grades), duration, timing (systolic, diastolic, or continuous), location, transmission, and quality (musical, vibratory, blowing, etc).
Heart murmurs which are systolic in timing. They occur between the first and the second HEART SOUNDS, between the closure of MITRAL VALVE and TRICUSPID VALVE and the closure of semilunar aortic and pulmonary valves. Systolic murmurs include ejection murmurs and regurgitant murmurs.