The murmur of aortic regurgitation is a soft, high-pitched, early diastolic decrescendo murmur usually heard best at the third intercostal space on the left (Erb's point) at end expiration while ...

The shape of a murmur describes the change of intensity throughout the cardiac cycle. Murmurs are either crescendo, decrescendo, crescendo-decrescendo or uniform. A murmur will be high pitched if ...

A grade 3/6 long, high-pitched, decrescendo diastolic murmur was heard at the left sternal border. A separate apical diastolic rumble could not be distinguished. An electrocardiogram showed atrial ...