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Pericardial Rub |
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Pericardial Rub |
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Brief Information |
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| Description |
A rubbing sound due to the friction of visceral and parietal pericard layers. |
| Findings on Examination |
The rubbing may occupy all of systole an diastole. It is intense, grating, machine-like sound; which may have 3 components and obliterate heart sounds. If it has only 1 or 2 components, it may sound like murmur. |
| Compare with |
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| Normal Heart Sound (441K) |
Y.E. Kocabasoglu and R.H. Henning
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