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What is a heart murmur and how does it affect my enlarged heart?

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Dr. Mark Rasak answered

Specializes in Cardiology

Turbulence: A murmur is audible turbulence in the heart. It can be from vavular heart disease or other structual abnormalities. It can be innocent and not be clinically relevent. You can get a murmur with fevers, fast heart rates, and thyroid disease.Some times if the heart dilates the valves can incompletely close and cause a murmur. Would need more info to specifically answer your question.

Answered 8/28/2013

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Sound in the heart: When blood flows through the heart valve and if there is incompetence of the valve or narrowing of the valve, if produces a sound which a phsycian can dtect listening throug a stethoscope.

Answered 8/29/2012

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Sound in the heart: When you hear blood flow through a competent or narrow hear valve, it is a heart murmur. It it is singificant, it can enalrge heart chambers due to excessive blood flow.

Answered 11/28/2017

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