[Evaluation of cardiac murmurs in children].

Background: Many normal children have heart murmurs, but most children do not have heart disease. Differentiation of innocent murmurs from those due to structural heart disease, pathological murmurs, is largely clinical.

Material And Methods: This review is based upon the authors' own studies and PubMed searches.

[Referral practice and clinical assessment of heart murmurs in children].

Background: Heart murmurs in infants and children are common, and in most cases these are physiological murmurs. In a few cases they represent congenital heart disease; it is important to detect those few children by referral to paediatric cardiologists.

Material: 220 consecutive children with heart murmur were investigated prospectively as outpatients in the Children's clinic, Haukeland University Hospital from January through December 2001.