.Welcome to the Heart Sounds Tutorial! The following pages will cover the four valvar lesions commonly found in the left heart:

aortic regurgitation

 aortic stenosis mitral regurgitation mitral stenosis

Minimum System Requirements:
800 x 600 pixels, 16-bit sound card with headphones, Netscape 4.7 or later, Internet Explorer 5.5 or later. Processors slower than 200MHz with less than 64MB RAM may have trouble playing the movies smoothly.

Flash Player:
If you do not see the animated Blaufuss logo in the top left corner of this page, you will need the Flash player to see the interactive movies and computer animations. The latest version from Macromedia can be downloaded here.
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Heart Sounds Quiz: test your auscultation skills. This interactive quiz will test your ability to identify correctly the first and second heart sounds, extra sounds, diastolic and systolic murmurs in recordings of actual patients, using a computer animation of the carotid pulse for timing.
Heart Sounds Quiz
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