When someone opens the door and enters a hospital room, wearing a stethoscope is a telltale sign that they’re a clinician.

ALTHOUGH Fauvel, 1 in 1843, attributed the apical presystolic murmur to stenosis of the mitral valve, Duroziez's 2 description — "ffout-tata-rou" — in 1862 has been considered as the classic ...

A prospective study of the heart murmurs in 30 elderly patients, none of whom had a history of rheumatic heart disease, was undertaken by use of phonocardiography, carotid-pulse recording and amyl ...

Lubb-dupp. Lubb-dupp. Those are the words that health care professionals often use to mimic the sound of your heartbeat. That steady, regular sound is made by your heart valves opening and closing as ...

Heart auscultation by primary care providers detected heart murmurs in nearly 1 in 4 individuals in a Norwegian population. While murmurs were particularly useful for detecting aortic stenosis, their ...

Heart murmurs can sometimes be harmless, or they might need to be addressed if they're caused by a heart condition. Here's ...

Does having a heart murmur mean you have a heart problem and need heart surgery? That’s not always necessarily true. But picking up a murmur on physical exam can, in certain circumstances, literally ...

Heart murmurs are often harmless, especially in children, but some can indicate serious issues. Doctors assess murmurs by ...