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Venous Hum Causing Tinnitus: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California, jane .anderson{at}ucsfmedctr.org

David Teitel, MD

Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California

Yvonne W. Wu, MD, MPH

Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California

Hearing one's own heart murmur has been reported in adults, but has not been reported in the pediatric literature. This study reports the case of a young child who clearly heard her own venous hum, causing her to complain of pulsatile tinnitus. This entity should be included in the differential diagnosis of pulsatile tinnitus and by doing so pediatricians and cardiologists may avoid ordering unnecessary diagnostic procedures.

Key Words: venous hum • pulsatile tinnitus • self-heard heart murmur

This version was published on January 1, 2009

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 48, No. 1, 87-88 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0009922808321113


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