The following symptoms and complaints may indicate heart disease associated with heart murmurs:
Leading symptoms in adults:
- Decrease in exercise capacity
- Exertional dyspnea – occurrence of shortness of breath during exertion.
- Cardiac arrhythmias such as tachyarrhythmia absoluta (TAA; cardiac arrhythmia that belongs to the tachyarrhythmias. Its characteristics are a too fast heart action (tachycardia) and an absolute arrhythmia).
- Vertigo (dizziness)
- Syncope – brief loss of consciousness due to an insufficient supply of blood to the brain.
- Cyanosis (bluish discoloration of the skin and/or central mucous membranes caused by a lack of oxygen):
- Central cyanosis (bluish discoloration of the skin and central mucous membranes) – in vitia (heart defect) with right-to-left shunt (in this disorder, deoxygenated venous blood enters the systemic circulation directly, bypassing the pulmonary circulation).
- Peripheral cyanosis, generalized – in valvular vitiation (heart defect).
Leading symptoms in children:
- Failure to thrive
- Hepatosplenomegaly (enlargement of the liver and spleen).
- Weakness in drinking
- Cyanosis (bluish discoloration of the skin and/or central mucous membranes due to a lack of oxygen):
- Central cyanosis (bluish discoloration of the skin and central mucous membranes) – in vitia (heart defect) with right-to-left shunt (in this disorder, deoxygenated venous blood enters the systemic circulation directly, bypassing the pulmonary circulation).
- Peripheral cyanosis, generalized – in valvular vitiation (heart defect).
