Heart Murmur, Atherosclerosis, & Heart Failure A heart murmur is a sound caused by blood flowing through a child's heart or through blood vessels entering or leaving the heart. More that 50 percent of all people will be diagnosed with a heart murmur sometime in their lives. When a child's doctor or nurse practitioner detects a heart murmur, this causes many parents quite a bit of anxiety, especially if they have relatives with heart disease. Luckily, in …
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…not clear. At Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, we offer a broad range of traditional therapies as well as options not available elsewhere in New Jersey. In working with referring physicians and individuals to successfully manage heart failure, the physician directors of our Heart Failure Program rely on traditional medical therapy for some patients. A significant number of individuals respond favorably to these medications and are able to successfully maintain the regimen throughout their lives.