What’s the differential diagnosis of heart murmurs?
| SYSTOLIC MURMURS | |
| Ejection systolic | Flow (thyrotoxicosis, pregnancy, anaemia,) Aortic stenosis Pulmonary stenosis Aortic coarctation Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy |
| Pan systolic | Mitral regurgitation Ventricular septal defect Tricuspid regurgitation |
| Late systolic | Mitral valve prolapse |
| Early systolic | Acute severe mitral regurgitation |
| DIASTOLIC MURMURS | |
| Early diastolic | Aortic regurgitation Pulmonary regurgitation |
| Mid-late diastolic | Mitral stenosis Austin Flint |
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