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 ...

How alarmed should you be if your doctor says you have a heart murmur? Not very, absent additional tests that suggest a serious problem, says Dr. Mouin Abdallah, a cardiologist with the Cleveland ...

How would you describe the intensity of a very loud diastolic murmur? This would be described as a IV/IV murmur or 4/4 intensity murmur. This describes the intensity, but remember the timing, pitch, ...

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 ...

Murmurs are characterized by their grade, pitch, timing in the cardiac cycle, change in intensity, quality, location heard best, and radiation. Systolic murmurs. Almost all systolic murmurs begin in ...

Sometimes, a murmur sounds like a humming sound, which can be faint or loud. It might be temporary or persistent. Heart murmurs may be present at birth or develop later in life during pregnancy, ...

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 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 ...

The Carey Coombs Murmur is a murmur that can occur in the setting of acute rheumatic fever. The mitral valve becomes inflamed causing thickening of the leaflets. The actual murmur is produced by ...