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 ...

Introduction: Heart murmurs in childhood are detected at any age Echocardiography is the gold standard to diagnose or rule out cardiac malformations As this tool is not always available, these ...

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 ...