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 loud. It ...

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 ...

If you put a stethoscope on a healthy beating heart, you'd typically hear "lub-dub, lub-dub," over and over again. When the heart makes a different sound, such as a whooshing or buzzing noise, it is ...

Many murmurs emanate from a healthy heart, says Dr. Vincent J. Bufalino, president of the Advocate Heart Institute, a system of hospitals in the Chicago area. He's also a spokesman for the American ...

Blood flows through the heart and generates noises known as heart sounds. These noises occur due to heart valves opening and closing as the heart pumps blood. A doctor can gain valuable information by ...

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 ...

April 8, 2005 -- Heart murmur intensity may be graded using heart sounds as an internal reference, according to the results of a single-blind, controlled trial published in the April issue of the ...

Is a childhood heart murmur something to worry about? Not necessarily, says Dr. Angelo S. Milazzo, a pediatric cardiologist and medical director of Duke Children's Consultative Services of Raleigh. A ...

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 ...

You’re at your pet’s annual exam when your veterinarian pauses, listens to the chest again and says, “I hear a heart murmur ...