Causes
Common conditions can make your heart beat faster and lead to heart murmurs:
- Anemia
- High blood pressure
- Overactive thyroid
- Fever
Other heart murmurs may indicate an abnormality in the heart. These abnormal murmurs can be caused by:
- Problems of the aortic valve (aortic regurgitation, aortic stenosis)
- Problems of the mitral valve (chronic or acute mitral regurgitation, mitral stenosis)
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis)
- Pulmonary regurgitation (backflow of blood into the right ventricle, caused by failure of the pulmonary valve to close completely)
- Pulmonary valve stenosis
- Problems of the tricuspid valve (tricuspid regurgitation, tricuspid stenosis)
- Congenital Heart Defects
Symptoms
Many people with heart murmurs experience no symptoms. However, some murmurs can occur in conjunction with these other symptoms:
- Angina/Chest pain
- Rapid heartbeat (palpitations)
- Breathlessness
- Fatigue
- Bluish skin color or fingertips (sometimes seen in babies with congenital heart defects)
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