Background Heart auscultation is a widely used and cost-effective clinical tool for detecting valvular heart disease (VHD), particularly in primary care. However, existing evidence on its diagnostic ...

Sometimes, a murmur sounds like a humming sound, which can be faint or loud. It might be temporary or persistent. Heart murmurs may be present at birth or develop later in life during pregnancy, ...

How alarmed should you be if your doctor says you have a heart murmur? Not very, absent additional tests that suggest a serious problem, says Dr. Mouin Abdallah, a cardiologist with the Cleveland ...

Murmurs are characterized by their grade, pitch, timing in the cardiac cycle, change in intensity, quality, location heard best, and radiation. Systolic murmurs. Almost all systolic murmurs begin in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How would you describe the intensity of a very loud diastolic murmur? This would be described as a IV/IV murmur or 4/4 intensity murmur. This describes the intensity, but remember the timing, pitch, ...

The Graham Steell murmur is the murmur of pulmonic valve regurgitation. Pulmonic regurgitation produces a murmur that is often indistinguishable from that of aortic valve regurgitation. Pulmonic valve ...