water hammer pulse

A booming, bounding, or pistol-shot-like sound heard by auscultation in aortic regurgitation or in a large patent ductus arteriosus—PDA

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water hammer pulse

Collapsing pulse A booming, bounding, or pistol-shot-like sound auscultated in aortic regurgitation or in a large patent ductus arteriosus–PDA; the so-called 'small water hammer pulse' is due to a brisk rise in systemic arterial pressure in the face of normal pulse pressure

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