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 ...

This type of heart murmur can stay with a child as they get older or go away over time. Abnormal heart murmurs can occur in ...

More than a quarter of “healthy” adults over 60 have undiagnosed heart valve disease ... or when a doctor hears an unusual ...

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 ...