Heart murmurs are extra sounds that can be heard during systole, diastole, or as a continuous sound. They are graded on a scale of 1 to 6 based on their intensity. Murmurs can be harmless (known ...

A heart murmur is an abnormal sound your heart makes when it beats, often sounding like a whooshing or swishing noise. You ...

Note that heart sounds are discrete, short audible events from a specific cause — different from a heart murmur. A murmur is due to turbulence of blood flow and can, at times, encompass all of ...

A midsystolic murmur begins just after the S1 heart sound and terminates just before the P2 heart sound, so S1 and S2 will be distinctly audible. The term midsystolic is preferred to SEM ...