An S4 heart sound is a low-pitched sound that occurs toward the end of the diastole. In some cases, an underlying health condition, often one affecting the left ventricle, may cause the S4 heart sound ...

When the doctor places that cold stethoscope on your chest, she’s listening for two distinct sounds – lub-DUB. “You can almost set your clock to what you are hearing,” said internist Mary Ann Kuzma.

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 ...

Heart sounds are produced from a specific cardiac event such as closure of a valve or tensing of a chordae tendineae. Many pathologic cardiac conditions can be diagnosed by auscultation of the heart ...

The independent prognostic value of elevated jugular venous pressure or a third heart sound in patients with heart failure is not well established. In patients with heart failure, elevated jugular ...

The second heart sound is produced by the closure of the aortic and pulmonic valves. The sound produced by the closure of the aortic valve is termed A2 and the sound produced by the closure of the ...