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 ...

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, ...

Heart murmurs can be present at birth or develop later in life. Some heart murmurs, called innocent hurt murmurs, are harmless. An innocent heart murmur is not a sign of heart disease and doesn’t need ...

Parents have been sounding off to me with lots of questions about heart murmurs in their children. Allow me to get to the heart of the matter and provide some information on this topic. A heart murmur ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SHREVEPORT, La. -- A heart murmur is a fairly common condition. Nearly 10% of adults and more than half of all children have a heart murmur at some point in their lives. Many times, it is not a ...

BECAUSE of the great interest currently demonstrated in the surgical correction of mitral stenosis, it has become essential for the clinician to be able to diagnose this condition with the greatest ...