Murmurs are described by their timing in the cardiac cycle, intensity, shape, pitch, location, radiation and response to dynamic maneuvers. Using the aforementioned criteria, a clinician can ...

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

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

What is a heart murmur? A heart murmur doesn’t feel like a fluttering in your chest. In fact, you can’t feel it all—a stethoscope is the only way to detect one because a heart murmur is an ...