A heart murmur is an abnormality of the heartbeat. Heart murmurs are usually identified when a veterinarian uses a stethoscope to listen to your dog's heart. There are several types and degrees of ...

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 ...

Still's murmur was first described in a small section of the pediatrician Dr. George Frederick Still's 1909 book Common Disorders and Diseases of Childhood. He described it as a small sound he wanted ...

When a doctor listens to the heart of a person with a heart murmur, they may hear a whooshing, swishing, humming, or rasping sound. This is due to rapid, turbulent blood flow through the heart.

Learning that your newborn has a heart murmur can be scary news. But heart murmurs in newborns are actually extremely common and often harmless. Read on to learn more about what to look out for if ...

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 ...

A heart murmur can sound scary—literally. A Keck Medicine of USC cardiologist explains why it might not be as scary as you think. As Oana Maria Penciu, MD, a cardiologist with the USC Cardiac and ...

Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve that produces a high-pitched “whooshing” murmur, which is often the first noticeable sign of the condition. Murmurs are graded from 1 to 6 based on ...