Lubb-dupp. Lubb-dupp. Those are the words that health care professionals often use to mimic the sound of your heartbeat. That steady, regular sound is made by your heart valves opening and closing as ...

April 8, 2005 -- Heart murmur intensity may be graded using heart sounds as an internal reference, according to the results of a single-blind, controlled trial published in the April issue of the ...

A normal heart beat has two sounds typically described as “lub-dub” which are caused by heart valves closing. But sometimes when listening to a patient’s heart with a stethoscope, a doctor may hear a ...

Sometimes, a murmur sounds like a humming sound, which can be faint or loud. It might be temporary or persistent. Heart murmurs may be present at birth or develop later in life during pregnancy, ...

When a doctor listens to someone's heartbeat, they typically hear a characteristic sound: "lub-dub, lub-dub." In some people, though, this two-tone heartbeat is accompanied by whooshing or rasping ...

Does having a heart murmur mean you have a heart problem and need heart surgery? That’s not always necessarily true. But picking up a murmur on physical exam can, in certain circumstances, literally ...

Heart murmurs in dogs are extra vibrations or sounds in the heart that come from abnormal blood flow. It is not a condition on its own but rather a symptom of an underlying condition. When your ...

In a move sure to end up on House, a cardiologist from Temple University has shown that listening to heart sounds on an iPod significantly improves a person's ability to diagnose abnormal heart sounds ...

Detecting a heart murmur on your own can be tricky. A murmur is an extra heart sound that can be heard by a stethoscope. Sometimes, a murmur sounds like a humming sound, which can be faint or loud. It ...