A heart murmur can sound scary—literally. A Keck Medicine of USC cardiologist explains why it might not be as scary as you ...
Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Key Takeaways S1 and S2 are the normal heart sounds you hear when the heart ...
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 ...
Feb. 23—Detecting a heart murmur on your own can be tricky. A murmur is an extra heart sound that can be heard by a stethoscope. Sometimes, a murmur sounds like a humming sound, which can be faint 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 ...
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 ...
In ancient times, the heart was portrayed as the center of our being, the source of life and also the epicenter of emotions and perhaps even the seat of the soul. Today, the brain has taken over as ...