History: Fifteen year old boy complains
History
Fifteen year old boy complains of dizziness during soccer practice.
Exam
Use the 'heart sounds' link above to virtually auscultate this patient.
Auscultation Tips
Significant independent predictors of the presence of a confirmed cardiac lesion:
- A loud murmur of intensity 3 or greater.
- Best heard at the pulmonic location (2LICS).
- Harsh sound.
- Pansystolic murmur.
- Systolic click.
- Abnormal second heart sound - fixed splitting during respiration.
