There are a few common extra heart sounds that the clinician may encounter. These include ejection sounds that occur with pulmonic or AS heard in early systole, “clicks” that are heard in mitral or ...

When a doctor listens to the heart of a person with a heart murmur, they may hear a whooshing, swishing, humming, or rasping sound. This is due to rapid, turbulent blood flow through the heart.

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 ...

Graphical diagnostics: Signals from a normal aortic valve (left) show two separated sounds while those from a defective aortic valve (right) display diamond-shaped murmurs. The sound data were used to ...