The Graham-Steell Murmur Re-Evaluated

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IN 1888 Graham Steell described his now famous left-sternal-border diastolic murmur and attributed its origin to pulmonary regurgitation caused by high pressure in the pulmonary artery in patients with mitral stenosis,1:In cases of mitral obstruction there is occasionally heard over the pulmonary area and below this region, for the distance of an inch or two along the left border of the sternum, and rarely over the lowest part of the bone itself, a soft blowing diastolic murmur immediately following or, more exactly, running off from the accentuated second sound, while the usual indications of aortic regurgitation afforded by . . .