She also had rheumatic heart disease, mainly aortic regurgitation. An additional diagnosis of mitral stenosis was considered because of an accentuated first apical sound and a presystolic murmur.

Three patients with a murmur before death interpreted as being due to mitral regurgitation failed to show mitral regurgitation by perfusion but did show tricuspid regurgitation (Fig. 3).

A heart murmur is an abnormal sound your heart ... Mitral valve stenosis and mitral valve regurgitation can both affect your mitral valve. Stenosis causes symptoms like shortness of breath ...

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The saturation was 97% with oxygen therapy of the nasal cannula. The following auscultation revealed a systolic murmur in the cardiac apex. Transthoracic echocardiography demonstrated the presence of ...

She developed hemodynamic decompensation several hours later. We auscultated a new holosystolic murmur at the cardiac apex, consistent with mitral regurgitation. We also detected inspiratory crackles ...