THIS study reviews the long-term clinical courses of patients with basal diastolic murmurs and dominant mitral stenosis.MethodsReviewed were the records of 81 patients under supervision in the same ...

Background Heart auscultation is a widely used and cost-effective clinical tool for detecting valvular heart disease (VHD), ...

Murmurs can also be systolic (heard when the heart’s main pumping chambers contract) or diastolic (heard when those chambers relax) Some conditions that cause murmurs include aortic valve ...

Innocent heart murmurs are harmless and can occur in a healthy heart. During an innocent heart murmur, the heart beats typically but makes extra sounds as blood flows through the heart.

Some heart murmurs can be harmless and do not indicate any health problems. Other heart murmurs, including aortic stenosis murmur, indicate a problem with a heart valve or another health condition.

A 54-year-old man presented with severe symptoms of heart failure. An evaluation revealed a wide pulse pressure, displaced cardiac impulse, volume overload, and a diastolic murmur. A chest radiogra ...

A 24-year-old female presents with dyspnea and edema. She is noted to have a holosystolic murmur at the left lower sternal border as well as a short early diastolic murmur at the same location.

“The murmur may disappear as quickly as it comes if it has a temporary cause,” says Michel Barsoum, M.B., Ch.B., a cardiologist and vascular medicine specialist at Mayo Clinic Health System.