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 ...

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 ...

When British cardiologist Graham Steell (1851-1942) examined patients with heart disease at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, England, he had only a few instruments at his disposal. He made ...

To the Editor: It is my opinion that Brest et al. arrived at a wrong conclusion in their article, "A Re-evaluation of the Graham-Steell Murmur," in the December 15, 1960, issue of the Journal. They ...

A heart murmur is, as the name suggests, a sound that occurs during a heartbeat, caused by rapid, turbulent blood flow through the heart. Characterised as a whooshing or swishing sound, these heart ...

Heart murmurs are a phrase many of us hear during a doctor visit. While one is lying on the examining table, the physician sets a stethoscope on your chest, and then they stop. "You have a murmur," ...

The ventricles share a common septum and, therefore, the filling of one influences the compliance of the other. This phenomenon is known as direct diastolic ventricular interaction. The interaction is ...