Clinical cases in Cardiology (nº. 9): 8 years old scholar with systolic murmur and ECG alteration

We continue the series in Paediatric Cardiology checking frequent reasons for consultation in the paediatric offices of Primary Care, presenting them in a brief and practical way and trying to show the electrocardiogram usefulness, diagnostic tool available at the Primary Care office. In this paper we present the case of an 8 years old boy with a systolic cardiac murmur detected in the well child consultation. The way clinical and electrocardiographic findings guide the diagnosis of this patient is discussed.