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Egophony is a change in timbre (Ee to A) but not pitch or volume. It is due to a decrease in the amplitude and an increase in the frequency [corrected] of the second formant, produced by solid (including compressed lung) interposed between the resonator and the stethoscope head. This explains certain difficulties in learning this valuable but currently neglected sign as well as in understanding certain physiologic false-positive occurrences.
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Evaluation of right ventricular (RV) performance in patients presenting with pulmonary edema following scorpion envenomation. ⋯ These data show that RV function impairment is associated with left ventricular dysfunction, suggesting similarities between left ventricular and RV alterations following severe scorpion envenomation providing further arguments to the hypothesis of scorpionic myocarditis.