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pansystolic

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pansystolic /pan·sys·tol·ic/ (pan″sis-tol´ik) pertaining to or affecting all of, or occurring throughout, systole.
pan·sys·tol·ic (pns-stlk)
adj.
Relating to or lasting throughout the systole of a heartbeat.

pansystolic
[-sistol′ik]
pertaining to the entire systole. Also called holosystolic.

pansystolic
the whole of systole; includes presystolic and systolic phases. See also heart murmur.


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Characteristics of pathological murmurs (5-7) * Diastolic, pansystolic or late systolic * Usually loud (3/6 or more) * Associated with a thrill * Symptoms or signs of cardiac disease * Continuous * S1 inaudible or not single * Most do not change significantly on standing (the systolic murmur of the rare, but dangerous, hypertophic obstructive cardiomyopathy increases on standing) (7) * Examples: All murmurs caused by cardiac lesions.
Crackles were heard on both sides of the chest, and a grade 4/6 pansystolic murmur was loudest over the mitral valve area.
 
 
 
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