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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A normal heart beat has two sounds typically described as “lub-dub” which are caused by heart valves closing. But sometimes when listening to a patient’s heart with a stethoscope, a doctor may hear a ...

The chair of cardiology at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Dr. Blase Carabello specializes in treating patients with complex valve disease. He has been working in the field since 1973. When a doctor listens ...

If your heart makes a whooshing sound instead of the familiar lub-dub, it doesn't necessarily mean your health is in peril, according to Mercy Cardiology Medical Director Dominic Hurley. The detection ...

Background Heart auscultation is a widely used and cost-effective clinical tool for detecting valvular heart disease (VHD), particularly in primary care. However, existing evidence on its diagnostic ...

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 ...

When a doctor listens to someone's heartbeat, they typically hear a characteristic sound: "lub-dub, lub-dub." In some people, though, this two-tone heartbeat is accompanied by whooshing or rasping ...

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, ...

What is a Heart/Cardiac Murmur? A cardiac/heart murmur is an extra whooshing sound during heart-beat. The murmur is due to turbulent blood flow in the heart or blood vessels. The cardiac murmur is a ...