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Figure 1. Artist’s rendition of auscultatory findings of systolic murmurs. Ejection murmur (upper part) begins just following the first sound (S₁) and stops just prior to the second sound (A₂ indicates aortic component; P₂ indicates pulmonary component) while a holosystolic murmur (lower part) starts with and conceals the S₁ and may last through the entire systole (similar to that shown in the lower part of the diagram) or may stop prior to A₂. Modified from Rao^[5].