Outside of the heart, audible turbulence is referred to as a bruit, whereas inside the heart it is called a murmur. A pictorial representation of systolic and diastolic murmurs is below.

it is called a heart murmur. Sometimes, heart murmurs are harmless, but they can also be associated with dangerous heart defects. Here's what you need to know. A heart murmur is often innocent ...

Tricuspid stenosis is very rare and is discussed further in the valvular heart disease section. The murmur of aortic regurgitation is a soft, high-pitched, early diastolic decrescendo murmur ...

So, Millie’s family was shocked when her new pediatrician detected a suspicious heart murmur. After an EKG and an echocardiogram, doctors diagnosed the 6-year-old with a congenital heart defect.

Chef and restaurateur Adam Hegsted kept a busy pace with his Eat Good Group of regional eateries, but that screeched to a halt more than a year ago. Hegsted, who exercises most days, hadn't felt ...

IN 1888 Graham Steell described his now famous left-sternal-border diastolic murmur and attributed its ... and was discovered to have rheumatic heart disease and atrial fibrillation.

The defect was discovered when she was six months old after doctors heard a heart murmur at one of her visits. The heart issue didn’t cause her any problems growing up and it wasn’t until ...

When Katie Eddington’s OB-GYN first told her she had a heart murmur, she was surprised but not shocked. Eddington, who was 29 years old when the murmur was first detected, had lost her brother ...