Midsystolic murmurs — also known as systolic ejection murmurs, or SEM — include the murmurs of aortic stenosis, pulmonic stenosis, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and atrial septal ...

A heart murmur is a sound often characterized as a "whooshing" or rushing of fluid that can be heard between heartbeats. As ...

THE primary purpose of this report is to emphasize the relation of a high-pitched "squeaking" or "musical" systolic murmur to aortic stenosis and calcification of the aortic valve. This is not so ...

Heart sound 1 (S1) is the normal systolic heart sound ... who have had an acute myocardial infarction (heart attack). Heart murmurs are extra sounds that can be heard during systole, diastole ...

If your doctor told you that you have a heart murmur, you’re probably wondering what that means. Is my health in danger? Will I always have a heart murmur? Do I need surgery? The good news is that ...

“An overactive thyroid may cause turbulent blood flow in the heart,” says Dr. Collier, leading to a what’s known as a systolic heart murmur—it occurs before the first sound your heart ...

In fact, some observers suggested that it be termed the auricular systolic murmur. It is apparent, therefore, that most clinicians of those days were not aware of the portion of diastole in which ...

Systolic murmurs are graded on a scale of 1-6 while diastolic murmurs are graded on a scale of 1-4 (see below). Often, grade 1 murmurs are not discernable to inexperienced clinicians, while grade ...