Midsystolic murmurs — also known as systolic ejection murmurs, or SEM — include the murmurs of aortic stenosis, pulmonic stenosis, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and atrial septal ...

Systolic murmurs can be classified as either midsystolic (systolic ejection murmurs, or SEM), holosystolic (pansystolic) or late systolic. A midsystolic murmur begins just after the S1 heart sound ...

A LETTER published elsewhere in this issue of the Journal criticizes the stand taken in a recent paper* regarding the significance of apical systolic murmurs. Undoubtedly, in the interpretation of ...

The Graham-Steell murmur remained a universally accepted ... a loud and palpable mitral 1st sound, and an early systolic ejection click at the left sternal border. The pulmonic 2nd sound was ...

Typical findings in patients with ASD may include a prominent right ventricular impulse along the left sternal border, a systolic ejection murmur audible along the left upper sternal border caused ...