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

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 ...

Disease of the cardiac valves and other cardiac structures frequently results in abnormal, turbulent blood flow within the heart, causing murmurs. Careful auscultation of heart murmurs is an ...

In each the typical physical findings of mitral stenosis were present; these included a sharp mitral first sound, a rumbling mid-late diastolic apical murmur and an opening snap. There was no ...