Cardiac murmur in a child

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• Approximately one child in a hundred has a congenital structural anomaly of the heart.
• A vibratory sound is heard in at least every fifth child, and occasionally in more than half of the children (for example during fever).
• Blood pressures from the right upper and lower extremities should be measured in each child with a systolic murmur to detect possible aortic coarctation.

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