[Survey of prevalence, etiology and associated factors of heart murmurs and extrasounds in the first-grade students in Rasht, 2006-7]

ABSTRACT

Abstract Introduction: Heart murmurs are common findings of physical examination of children, but most of them are innocent. Recognizing the etiology and associated factors with heart murmurs can help us in differential diagnosis of them. In attention to high prevalence of heart murmurs and low prevalence of congenital heart diseases in children, diagnosis of the innocent murmur with pathologic murmur is important