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 ...

A prospective study of the heart murmurs in 30 elderly patients, none of whom had a history of rheumatic heart disease, was undertaken by use of phonocardiography, carotid-pulse recording and amyl ...

Aortic stenosis is a disease often diagnosed in its asymptomatic phase due to its distinct murmur and the widespread use of noninvasive imaging. The history, however, is still of paramount importance ...

Changes in a murmur with respiration (inhalation) can help distinguish a right-sided murmur from its corresponding left-sided murmur. All right-sided murmurs increase with inspiration (Carvallo sign).

Lansing resident Sandra Mosier, 75, has lived with a heart murmur her entire life. When she heard the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure was now available at McLaren Greater ...

A heart murmur is an unusual sound heard between heartbeats. It doesn’t necessarily mean you have a heart condition, but it often requires further evaluation. During a checkup, your doctor will listen ...

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 ...

An S4 heart sound cannot be present during atrial fibrillation (atrial kick is required). An S3 heart sound cannot be present in the setting of severe mitral stenosis. An S3 heart sound can be present ...

Aortic stenosis (AS) is a condition affecting the heart characterized by the narrowing of the aortic valve of the left ventricle. Typically, the heart’s aortic valve opens during each contraction.

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 ...

THE clinical profile and results of operation in children and adults with congenital aortic stenosis have been reported from this department earlier. 1,3 It is the purpose of this presentation to ...