The timing (systolic or diastolic), pitch, and location of the murmur help doctors understand its significance. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, murmurs are graded on a scale of 1-6, based on ...

A heart murmur is, as the name suggests, a sound that occurs during a heartbeat, caused by rapid, turbulent blood flow ...

Objectives Seventeen male participants (mean (SD) (range): age 33.5 (6.5) years (46–26 years), body mass 80 (9.2) kg (100–63 kg), height 1.81 (0.06) m (1.93– 1.70 m)) ran a marathon to investigate the ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Systolic congestive heart failure, or systolic heart failure, is a type of heart ...

Our group has recently demonstrated the interconnectedness between systole and diastole via assessments of systolic‐diastolic coupling, which describes the contribution of systolic contraction toward ...

AIM To define the origin and the natural history of innocent heart murmurs in newborn infants. METHODS Fifty healthy babies born at term with the clinical diagnosis of an innocent heart murmur and 50 ...

Objective —In some athletes with a substantial increase in left ventricular wall thickness, it may be difficult to distinguish with certainty physiological hypertrophy due to athletic training from ...

Background and objectives Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) is commonly associated with pulmonary hypertension (PHT); however, the factors associated with the presence and severity of PHT ...