If your heart is beating abnormally, you may wonder whether you're experiencing heart palpitations or a heart murmur. Here's ...

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 ...

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 ...

The chair of cardiology at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Dr. Blase Carabello specializes in treating patients with complex valve disease. He has been working in the field since 1973. When a doctor listens ...

Heart murmurs are sounds, such as whooshing or swishing, made by rapid, choppy blood flow through the heart. The sounds can be heard with a device called a stethoscope and are different from those of ...

If you put a stethoscope on a healthy beating heart, you'd typically hear "lub-dub, lub-dub," over and over again. When the heart makes a different sound, such as a whooshing or buzzing noise, it is ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband is 80 years old and a survivor of liver cancer after receiving four years of immunotherapy. On a recent follow-up visit to his oncologist, the doctor told him that he has a ...

Heart arrhythmias and heart murmurs can occur at any age. An arrhythmia is an abnormal heart rhythm and should be monitored to identify the risk and cause of the abnormality. These can be identified ...

Heart murmur that resolves when a child moves from a supine to a standing position can reliably rule out pathologic heart murmurs in pediatric patients, a study found. Implementing this low-cost ...