Most physicians learn about the continuous murmur due to a venous hum in the neck in the following context. The physician has been in the process of learning that all heart murmurs are not abnormal, ...

When a doctor listens to the heart of a person with a heart murmur, they may hear a whooshing, swishing, humming, or rasping sound. This is due to rapid, turbulent blood flow through the heart.

Murmurs are characterized by their grade, pitch, timing in the cardiac cycle, change in intensity, quality, location heard best, and radiation. Systolic murmurs. Almost all systolic murmurs begin in ...

THE presence of a continuous murmur heard in the anterior neck owing to blood flowing in the jugular veins has been well recognized for more than a hundred years. 1 ...