Nine-year-old twin Kelsey Brackett received a heart transplant at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. The hospital does 13-15 heart transplants each year.

A heart murmur tends to be common in children and can develop before a baby is born. It’s likely more noticeable during a ...

Babies' hearts beat faster than older children and are more likely to produce murmurs as they do so. An innocent murmur makes no difference to how the heart works and usually disappears as the ...

The word murmur is used to describe the noise made by the blood as it flows through the hearts and big vessels leading in and out of the heart. Doctors often hear murmurs when they listen to a ...

Her pediatrician heard a heart murmur. Ultimately it led to a transplant ... “She smiles more, she’s more active, she’s happy.” Advocate Children’s is one of two hospitals doing ...

A murmur is either systolic, diastolic or continuous throughout systole and diastole. Remember: Systole occurs between the S1 and S2 heart sounds, while diastole occurs between S2 and S1.

whereas inside the heart it is called a murmur. A pictorial representation of systolic and diastolic murmurs is below. Murmurs are described by their timing in the cardiac cycle, intensity ...

Doctors in New York City were able to save the lives of three children with one heart transplant. When an 11-year-old girl received a full heart transplant at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley ...