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  1. Mar 31, 2022 · Let the doctor listen to your heart. Your doctor will listen to your heart with a stethoscope and consider the following aspects of the murmur: [6] The sound. The doctor will be interested in whether it is loud or soft and whether it has a high or low pitch. The location of the murmur.

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  2. Mar 23, 2024 · If a condition such as high blood pressure is the cause of your murmur, your doctor will treat the cause. Treatment for some types of heart valve disease includes medicines such as: Blood thinners ...

  3. A heart murmur is an extra, unexpected sound that doctors hear with a stethoscope when they’re listening to the blood move through the heart. Some heart murmurs are incidental noises within healthy hearts, and they aren’t a sign of a problem. Other murmurs are indications that a structural abnormality exists within the heart, causing ...

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  5. May 10, 2018 · A heart murmur is a sound that is picked up when listening to the heart with a stethoscope. In general heart murmurs are felt to represent possible underlying issues with heart valves. The sound of a heart murmur itself is related to patterns of blood flow through the heart and related turbulence that produces noise then picked up by a stethoscope.

  6. May 27, 2022 · Echocardiogram. This is the main test used to determine the cause of a heart murmur. An echocardiogram uses sound waves to create pictures of the beating heart. It shows how blood flows through the heart and heart valves. Chest X-ray.

  7. May 27, 2022 · A heart murmur is caused by rapid, choppy (turbulent) blood flow through the heart. A heart murmur may happen: When the heart is filling with blood (diastolic murmur) When the heart is emptying (systolic murmur) Throughout the heartbeat (continuous murmur)

  8. Jan 18, 2024 · A cardiac murmur is simply a heart sound that is abnormal. The sound is created by blood flow moving through one of the valves of your heart. The heart has four valves, which when working normally, will help keep blood moving in the right direction and into your circulatory system.

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