Coombs murmur
Coombs murmur is a moderately diastolic murmur caused by narrowing of the mitral orifice by thickened swollen mitral valve tips, murmur confirms mitral valvulitis [1].
We hear it in patients with acute rheumatic fever, preferably in the area of the heart tip. Unlike the murmur in rheumatic mitral stenosis there is no (opening snap).
After healing, the cause of the murmur disappears.
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- ↑ RIEDEL, Martin. Revmatická horečka. Kardiologická revue [online]. 2003, vol. 3, p. 170, Available from <https://www.prolekare.cz/specialist-agreement>.
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- O'ROURKE, Robert A – WALSH, Richard A. Kardiologie : Hurstův manuál pro praxi. 1. edition. Praha : Grada, 2010. 800 pp. pp. 20. ISBN 978-80-247-3175-9.
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