Question

CASE STUDY 2: Cardiovascular

NOTE; Answer each question in detail. Please be very clear as to which case study and which question you are answering. You should number your answers according to the case study questions.

On routine exam of an otherwise healthy 78-year-old man, you note a systolic murmur.

Critical Thinking Questions:

1) What are the possible etiologies of this murmur?

2) What happens normally during systole and what could cause a murmur during systole?

3) What are the associated symptoms?

4) Describe how would you distinguish the differences between the patient having an aortic stenosis or mitral regurgitation?

5) How is a murmur diagnosed and how is it treated?

Answer 1

The possible etiologies for heart murmur gre Physical activity Areamia Aortic Stenosis. In the above mentioned case, the etiology of the murmur is Hortic stenolls. The Aortic stenosis is kind of progressive disease which usually have symptoms such as chest pain, syncope etc. But in most of the cases, the diagnosis of aortic stenosis, murmuy is observed specially in subclinical phase. It is revealed a in the physical examination. Most of the time in severe aortic stenosis. the symptoms are not identified