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 ...

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 ...

Background Heart auscultation is a widely used and cost-effective clinical tool for detecting valvular heart disease (VHD), particularly in primary care. However, existing evidence on its diagnostic ...

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 ...

An aortic stenosis murmur is an unusual sound the heart makes due to a narrowing of the aortic heart valve. The narrowed heart valve restricts blood flow from the heart, which can create a murmur.

The Means-Lerman scratch is a mid-systolic murmur heard in the setting of a hyperthyroid state at the left upper sternal border and end-expiration. This is thought to occur from rubbing of the ...

Correspondence to Dr Jonathan A Drezner, Department of Family Medicine, Sports Medicine Section, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-0005, USA; jdrezner{at}uw.edu Objectives We assessed ...

The aortic valve allows blood to leave the heart and travel through the aorta, which is the largest artery in the body. Aortic stenosis is when this heart valve narrows and doesn’t open fully. The ...

The correct diagnosis is a 2:1 left bundle branch block (Figure 2). The rhythm is regular at 100 beats/min when measuring intervals from the beginning of the QRS complexes and not R to R. A P wave ...