Whirling venous murmur
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- is a continuous functional heart murmur, physiological, innocent
- almost in every child when in sitting position
- appears because of the turbulence in jugular veins when blood quickly returns to the right atrium
- characteristics: appears in systole, continues over the second heart murmur and grows louder in diastole, intensity is 1–3/6[1]
- is mostly heard: in supraclavicular fossa, and it is louder on the right side
- it is best audible when sitting and turning the chin maximally to the left and up
- considerably weakens or even disappears in compression of the jugular vein on the one side and in the Valsalva maneuver[1]
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- systolic functional murmurs: vibratory murmur (Still's murmur), pulmonal expulsive murmur, supraclavicular murmur
- pericardial friction murmur
