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Benign or innocent cardiac murmurs in newborn

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Link to WHO Definition

Benign or innocent cardiac murmurs in newborn – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1567938151

A paediatric condition characterised by heart sounds that are produced as a result of turbulent blood flow that is sufficient to produce audible noise primarily due to physiologic conditions outside the heart, as opposed to structural defects in the heart itself in a newborn.

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