A 55-year-old man with a history of mild aortic stenosis presents to his cardiologist for a routine exam. He says he has no cardiac symptoms and is physically active. Physical examination is ...

Our latest in our series asked what could be the underlying diagnosis causing this older woman's dizziness and breathlessness ...

Q: When considering exercise stress testing for risk stratification in your patients with symptoms suggestive of CAD,be sure to listen for a systolic ejection murmur in the aortic area. Such a murmur ...

The intensity of the murmur typically increases as disease progresses, however when heart failure develops and cardiac output declines, the murmur becomes softer. Thus the intensity of the murmur is ...

What is the term for the cardiac murmur that can be heard in a patient with hyperthyroidism? The Means-Lerman scratch is a mid-systolic murmur heard in the setting of a hyperthyroid state at the left ...

The cause of this murmur has been the subject of much speculation. A glance at the various explanations 9–20 and comments regarding the Flint murmur (Table 1) demonstrates that the etiology remains ...

23-year-old male with interstitial nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, fever, and dyspnea. The patient is on corticosteroid therapy. A loud systolic murmur is heard at the apex. White blood count and ...

ALTHOUGH Fauvel, 1 in 1843, attributed the apical presystolic murmur to stenosis of the mitral valve, Duroziez's 2 description — "ffout-tata-rou" — in 1862 has been considered as the classic ...