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Heart click

cardiac symptom

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ5692171 ↗
Source-derived summary

With newer, non-invasive imaging techniques, the origin of other, so-called adventitial sounds or heart clicks has been appreciated. These are short, high-pitched sounds.

The mitral valve in cases of mitral stenosis may open with an opening snap on the beginning of diastole.

Patients with mitral valve prolapse may have a mid-systolic click along with a murmur, referred to as apical late systolic murmur. Early systolic clicks may also be present in some patients.

Aortic and pulmonary stenosis may cause an ejection click immediately after S1.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Heart click” as cardiac symptom. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Heart, click and cardiac.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 85-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Heart, click and cardiac providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Heart click” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.