Heart Murmurs in The Pediatric Population

Parents may certainly worry if they're told that their child has a heart murmur. Not all heart murmurs are symptoms of heart disease. Sometimes, a murmur may be heard in a normal child who has a fever or who is anemic; these murmurs often go away when the underlying problem is treated. 

Busy clinicians need an approach that allows them to appropriately identify and refer patients with pathologic murmurs to a pediatric cardiologist.

In this segment  Georgeann Groh, MD., Washington University Pediatric Cardiologist at St. Louis Children's Hospital and the Director, of Outpatient Pediatric Cardiology, explains heart murmurs in children and when to refer to a pediatric cardiologist.