-- Completion of enrollment for this 225-subject study is a key milestone on the path to delivering the first device for non-invasive and accurate measurement of pulmonary pressure-- LOS ...

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans die from heart disease–the leading cause of death in the country. In some ...

An analysis of heart sounds measured using a smartphone-based application (FonoCheck) showed efficacy in screening people for atrial fibrillation (AF) in community settings, with a positive predictive ...

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 ...

Disease of the cardiac valves and other cardiac structures frequently results in abnormal, turbulent blood flow within the heart, causing murmurs. Careful auscultation of heart murmurs is an extremely ...

S1 is the first heart sound that doctors can hear using a stethoscope. The vibrations that occur when the mitral and tricuspid valves in the heart close produce the S1 sound. There are two common ...

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 ...