Left Sided

Some articles on left, sided, left sided:

Heart Failure - Signs and Symptoms - Symptoms
... and somewhat arbitrarily divided into "left" and "right" sided, recognizing that the left and right ventricles of the heart supply different portions of the circulation ... There are several other exceptions to a simple left-right division of heart failure symptoms ... Left sided forward failure overlaps with right sided backward failure ...
Heart Sounds - Murmurs - Effects of Inhalation/expiration
... Therefore, right-sided murmurs generally increase in intensity with inspiration ... The increased volume of blood entering the right sided chambers of the heart restricts the amount of blood entering the left sided chambers of the heart ... This causes left-sided murmurs to generally decrease in intensity during inspiration ...

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