Symptoms If you have a harmless heart murmur, more commonly known as an innocent heart murmur, you likely won't have any other signs or symptoms. An abnormal heart murmur may cause no obvious other signs or symptoms, aside from the unusual sound your health care provider hears when listening to your heart with a stethoscope.
What do you know about heart murmurs? - Mayo Clinic News Network
A heart murmur is an extra heart sound that can be heard by a stethoscope. Heart murmurs may indicate a serious heart problem.
A murmur also might be from a leaky valve, called regurgitation. A murmur also may occur from high blood flow in people with a fever or with low red blood cells, called anemia. Some people have a family history of heart murmur and heart disease. Some are born with a congenital condition causing a murmur.
A murmur is an abnormal extra sound that can be heard through a stethoscope. Sometimes, the murmur sounds like a humming; it may be faint or temporary, with onset during pregnancy or fever.
Yet during my most recent routine physical examination, it was discovered that I have a heart murmur. I was referred for an echocardiogram and evaluation with a cardiologist who said I have a bicuspid aortic valve. What are the short- and long-term consequences of having a bicuspid aortic valve?
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy usually is diagnosed using an ultrasound of the heart, called a transthoracic echocardiogram. Many patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy have no symptoms, and the condition often is discovered when a provider hears a murmur on cardiac examination and orders a transthoracic echocardiogram to investigate.