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Heart Murmurs Learning Center

Innocent heart murmurs are caused by blood flowing through the chambers and valves of the heart or the blood vessels near the heart. Sometimes anxiety , stress , fever , anemia, overactive thyroid, and pregnancy will cause innocent murmurs that ca...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
The symptoms of heart murmurs differ, depending on the cause of the heart murmur. Innocent heart murmurs and those that do not impair the function of the heart usually do not have symptoms. Murmurs caused by severe abnormalities of a heart valve o...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Chest pain is discomfort or pain that you feel anywhere along the front of your body between your neck and upper abdomen.
Source:ADAM
Date:June 1, 2009
Palpitations are heartbeat sensations that feel like your heart is pounding or racing. You may simply have an unpleasant awareness of your own heartbeat, or may feel skipped or stopped beats. The heart's rhythm may be normal or abnormal. Palpitati...
Source:ADAM
Date:May 1, 2008
A sensation in which a person is aware of an irregular, hard, or rapid heartbeat.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Breathing difficulty involves a sensation of difficult or uncomfortable breathing or a feeling of not getting enough air. See also: Difficulty breathing - first aid
Source:ADAM
Date:June 12, 2009
Shortness of breath, or dyspnea, is a feeling of difficult or labored breathing that is out of proportion to the patient's level of physical activity. It is a symptom of a variety of different diseases or disorders and may be either acute or chronic.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Dizziness is light-headedness, feeling like you might faint, being unsteady, loss of balance, or vertigo (a feeling that you or the room is spinning or moving. Most causes of dizziness are not serious and either quickly get better on their own or ...
Source:ADAM
Date:May 2, 2009
Dizziness is a general term that describes sensations of imbalance and unsteadiness, such as vertigo, mild turning, imbalance, and near fainting or fainting. Feelings of dizziness stem from the vestibular system, which includes the brain and the p...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
As a disorder, dizziness is classified into three categories—vertigo, syncope, and nonsyncope nonvertigo. Each category has a characteristic set of symptoms, all related to the sense of balance. In general, syncope is defined by a brief loss of co...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Dizziness is classified into three categories—vertigo, syncope, and nonsyncope nonvertigo. Each category has a characteristic set of symptoms, all related to the sense of balance. In general, syncope is defined by a brief loss of consciousness (fa...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
As a disorder, dizziness is classified into three categories: vertigo, syncope, and nonsyncope nonvertigo. Each category has its own set of symptoms, all related to the sense of balance. In general, syncope is defined by a brief loss of consciousn...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
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