Your pediatrician listens to your child's heart with a stethoscope to assess its function and health. They hear the first and second heartbeats caused by the valves closing, but they also listen for ...

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 ...

Milly Lee, 37, didn't take her primary care doctor's advice. The Round Rock mom was busy raising a toddler when at her annual checkup in 2021, her primary care doctor told her she needed to see a ...

When a doctor listens to someone's heartbeat, they typically hear a characteristic sound: "lub-dub, lub-dub." In some people, though, this two-tone heartbeat is accompanied by whooshing or rasping ...

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 ...

When Eric and Andrea Paul took their newborn baby Bruce, born in September 2022, for his early checkups, the pediatrician found a persistent heart murmur. An echocardiogram revealed the baby had a ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an inherited form of heart disease. With HCM, the walls of the heart’s main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, become thick and stiff. Over time, the heart may ...