When someone opens the door and enters a hospital room, wearing a stethoscope is a telltale sign that they're a clinician.

Graphical diagnostics: Signals from a normal aortic valve (left) show two separated sounds while those from a defective aortic valve (right) display diamond-shaped murmurs. The sound data were used to ...

A prospective study of the heart murmurs in 30 elderly patients, none of whom had a history of rheumatic heart disease, was undertaken by use of phonocardiography, carotid-pulse recording and amyl ...

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 ...

The first time Julie Farkas listened to her son's heartbeat when he was about 4 years old, she heard a garbled noise through the doctor's stethoscope. She listened to her second son's heart. This time ...

What aortic stenosis sounds like? Differentiating systolic heart murmurs can be challenging. Differentiating systolic heart murmurs can be challenging. The murmur associated with aortic stenosis is ...

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Heart murmurs are abnormal heart sounds. They are quite common and often are harmless, but they may be caused by irregular blood flow through defective heart valves. Heart murmurs can occur in healthy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor's note: One of the most intriguing stories we ran in 2015 looked at — and listened to — how the invention of the stethoscope changed medicine. We're presenting it again, in case you missed it ...

Call it a May-December romance: The oldest tool in a doctor’s kit (a stethoscope) meets the youngest (a smartphone). Together, they make hearts race. They can hear, see, analyze and record those ...