A heart murmur is caused by
turbulent blood flow in the cardiac chambers or great vessels.
Not exact matches
Most
flows that we can observe
in nature and
in engineering are
turbulent, from the smoke of an extinguished candle to the
flow of
blood in the left ventricle of our heart.
From
blood flow to weather patterns, the equations prove invaluable
in modeling
turbulent environments; even so, physically meaningful solutions are nearly impossible to come by.
This is often also associated with some degree of mitral regurgitation, and these causes of
turbulent blood flow account for the systolic murmur audible
in some cats with HCM.
A heart murmur is an abnormal sound heard on physical exam with a stethoscope, which develops when
blood flow in the heart or great vessels is
turbulent.