But heart murmurs can also exist without symptoms and are usually only discovered during a visit to the doctor. When doctors diagnose a heart murmur, Doshi says they will likely follow up with a ...

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Aortic regurgitation can also cause a heart murmur. This happens when the aortic valve doesn’t properly close between heartbeats. This can cause blood to flow backward. Symptoms don’t always ...

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whereas inside the heart it is called a murmur. A pictorial representation of systolic and diastolic murmurs is below. Murmurs are described by their timing in the cardiac cycle, intensity ...

A midsystolic murmur begins just after the S1 heart sound and terminates just before the P2 heart sound, so S1 and S2 will be distinctly audible. The term midsystolic is preferred to SEM ...