Lubb-dupp. Lubb-dupp. Those are the words that health care professionals often use to mimic the sound of your heartbeat. That steady, regular sound is made by your heart valves opening and closing as ...

Does having a heart murmur mean you have a heart problem and need heart surgery? That’s not always necessarily true. But picking up a murmur on physical exam can, in certain circumstances, literally ...

Sometimes, a murmur sounds like a humming sound, which can be faint or loud. It might be temporary or persistent. Heart murmurs may be present at birth or develop later in life during pregnancy, ...

"It's just been every minute of the day, kind of, finding new information out and having to take it one step at a time," the content creator says of her baby Oliver's health. TikTok star Elyse Myers' ...

Q: During a medical exam for what turned out to be a bad case of the flu, the doctor heard something abnormal through his stethoscope. He said I had a murmur that sounded like aortic stenosis. He didn ...

The first time Julie Farkas listened to her son's heartbeat when he was about 4 years old, she heard a garbled noise through the doctor's stethoscope. She listened to her second son's heart. This time ...

There may be a genetic link between people who experience heart murmurs. These heart murmurs may be harmless or related to underlying heart disease, which can be inherited from family. Share on ...