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 heart failure is also referred to as heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, or HFrEF. Roughly 6.5 million people in the United States have heart failure of some type, and an ...

Diastolic heart failure is defined clinically when signs and symptoms of heart failure are present in the presence of preserved left ventricular systolic function (ejection fraction >45%).

A third compensatory response occurs via B-type natriuretic peptide and A-type ... the S3 can even be palpable. A systolic murmur of “functional” mitral regurgitation is often audible.