Carey Coombs murmur or Coombs murmur
- Murmur is caused by increased blood flow across a thickened mitral valve
- Occurs in patients with mitral valvulitis
- Due to acute rheumatic fever.
- Short, mid-diastolic rumble best heard at the apex
- Disappears as the valvulitis improves.
- Often associated with an S3 gallop rhythm,
- Distinguished from the diastolic murmur of mitral stenosis by the absence of an opening snap before the murmur.
Carey Coombs murmur
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