As it is known, a heart murmur is a sound produced when blood flows across one of the heart valves, and is loud enough to be heard with a stethoscope. While a heart murmur could be inconsequential or ...

Graphical diagnostics: Signals from a normal aortic valve (left) show two separated sounds while those from a defective aortic valve (right) display diamond-shaped murmurs. The sound data were used to ...

In a move sure to end up on House, a cardiologist from Temple University has shown that listening to heart sounds on an iPod significantly improves a person's ability to diagnose abnormal heart sounds ...

What aortic stenosis sounds like? Differentiating systolic heart murmurs can be challenging. Differentiating systolic heart murmurs can be challenging. The murmur associated with aortic stenosis is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If your heart makes a whooshing sound instead of the familiar lub-dub, it doesn't necessarily mean your health is in peril, according to Mercy Cardiology Medical Director Dominic Hurley. The detection ...

Aortic stenosis is a condition in which the opening of the aortic valve narrows, restricting blood flow from the heart to the rest of the body. The American Heart Association estimates that over 20% ...

If your heart murmur turns out to be a narrowing of the heart valve, or aortic stenosis, you might be surprised. Many patients with aortic stenosis don’t notice symptoms. What does this diagnosis mean ...

How does the murmur of mild aortic regurgitation differ from that of severe aortic regurgitation? How can you distinguish the murmur of aortic stenosis from that of hypertrophic obstructive ...