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Heart Murmurs in Children

Doctors classify heart murmurs into two categories:  innocent and abnormal.  Heart murmurs are extra sounds, such as whooshing or swishing, heard during a person’s heartbeat cycle.  Turbulent blood in and around the heart causes the extra sounds known as a heart murmur.  Over 50 percent of all children will have a heart murmur, most of […]

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