San Francisco, CA - Calling into question the "time-honored" tradition of using third and fourth heart sounds to identify cardiac abnormalities, a new study indicates that the overall diagnostic ...

Advancing technologies have transformed the detection of heart disease and, in turn, streamlined medical processes and relieved burden on health care systems. Here, Keller speaks more to the impact of ...

A SEARCH for cardiac murmurs is frequently the major objective of cardiac auscultation, and all too often insufficient attention is given to the heart sounds. In the past few years there has been a ...

IT IS possible that the existence of the heart sounds was known to Hippocrates 1 and even that he made use of his knowledge for diagnostic purposes, but William Harvey 2 seems to have been the first ...

Graphical diagnostics: Signals from a normal aortic valve (left) show two separated sounds while those from a defective aortic valve (right) display diamond-shaped murmurs. The sound data were used to ...

Editor's Note: Before reading this article, it is recommended that readers first review "Nonauscultatory Cardiac Exam: Assessing the Elderly Person," previously published on Medscape. As with most ...

The patient–doctor relationship is built upon trust in not only doctors' knowledge and skills but also attitudes. Over time, notions of trust in medical education have focused increasingly on trainees ...