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Mitral Regurgitation Lesson #683

patient thorax when auscultating by stethoscope

patient position during auscultation
The patient was supine during auscultation.

Description

A mitral regurgitation murmur is a rectangular murmur that continues throughout all systole. It has a mid-frequency pitch. S1 is normal. S2 is single. There is a third heart sound gallop in diastole.

The murmur is generated by turbulent blood flow through the incompetent mitral valve leaflets into the left atrium. Both the left ventricle and the left atrium are enlarged.

Phonocardiogram

Anatomy

Mitral Regurgitation

Both the left ventricle and the left atrium are enlarged. The murmur is caused by turbulent flow through the incompetent mitral valve leaflets into the left atrium.
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