Heart murmurs are a phrase many of us hear during a doctor visit. While one is lying on the examining table, the physician sets a stethoscope on your chest, and then they stop. "You have a murmur," ...

If your heart is beating too fast or even skipping a beat, you may wonder whether you're experiencing heart palpitations or a heart murmur. The fact is, the two conditions are not always mutually ...

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 murmurs are sounds, such as whooshing or swishing, made by rapid, choppy blood flow through the heart. The sounds can be heard with a device called a stethoscope and are different from those of ...

The chair of cardiology at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Dr. Blase Carabello specializes in treating patients with complex valve disease. He has been working in the field since 1973. When a doctor listens ...

If you put a stethoscope on a healthy beating heart, you'd typically hear "lub-dub, lub-dub," over and over again. When the heart makes a different sound, such as a whooshing or buzzing noise, it is ...

Many murmurs emanate from a healthy heart, says Dr. Vincent J. Bufalino, president of the Advocate Heart Institute, a system of hospitals in the Chicago area. He's also a spokesman for the American ...

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 murmur that resolves when a child moves from a supine to a standing position can reliably rule out pathologic heart murmurs in pediatric patients, a study found. Implementing this low-cost ...

What are your thoughts on doing a marathon with a heart murmur? I am a 58 year old male and I have no pain, shortness of breath, or any other symptoms. My ejection fraction is 55%, my blood pressure ...