Heart sounds and murmurs. Part 1, Mitral valve disease.

Date:
1972
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Description

An auditory model with the sounds and murmurs of mitral valve disease slowed down is used to demonstrate the different clinical signs of heart problems and their possible causes and outcomes in conjunction with animation of the heart action and pressure changes in slow motion. Describes the sounds and illustrates their sources. There are three patients seen; a woman in her 30s, a woman in her 40s and a man in his 50s.

Publication/Creation

England, 1972.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (28 min.) : sound, colour

Creator/production credits

ICI Pharmaceuticals Division. A Medi-Cine Production. Script and medical authority Dr M. K. Towers. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Dr J. F. Robinson, M. H. Yacoub, the staff of Harefield Hospital and I. K. R. McMillan.

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English

Copyright note

ICI Pharmaceuticals Division

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