February is Heart Month, an effort to raise awareness of heart disease, the leading cause of death for both men and women.

It is often difficult to distinguish if one murmur is radiating to multiple sites or if there are multiple murmurs present from many different causes. Dynamic auscultation and echocardiography are ...

“Not all patients have a murmur, and not all patients who have ... doctors make the official HCM diagnosis off an echocardiogram, often called an echo. An echocardiogram is also the most ...

This radiation of the aortic stenosis murmur to the apex is known as "Gallavardin dissociation." It requires dynamic auscultation or echocardiography to determine if coexisting mitral ...