Here is a quick mnemonic “MID DIASTOLIC“ to remember about Mid-Diastolic Murmurs
This can be valuable for patients as well as medical doctors, nurses & students doing their clinical rounds. You can also find it very useful for med exams like USMLE, NExT Medical Step 1&2, MBBS, NEET PG, INI-CET, FMGE,MCAT & NCLEX exams
Mid-Diastolic Murmurs : How To Remember Easily ?
- M – Mitral or tricuspid valve obstruction
- I – Increased flow at the level of the valves
- D – Duration of murmur reflects pressure gradient
- D – Difficult to hear at lower left sternal border
- I – Intensity increases with inspiration
- A – Austin Flint murmur in chronic AR
- S – Soft, rapid filling sound (S3)
- T – Tricuspid stenosis at lower left sternal border
- O– Other causes: myxomas, severe MR, and left-to-right shunts
- L – Left atrial myxomas prolapse across mitral valve
- I – Intermittent murmur in complete heart block
- C – Carey-Coombs murmur in acute rheumatic fever
Mnemonic : MID DIASTOLIC
