Doctors look for tiny clues to suggest patients might not be as healthy as they look. One way is to listen for a carotid bruit. It's an abnormal sound doctors can hear through a stethoscope while ...

The presence of a carotid bruit — a ‘sound’ over the carotid artery (which supplies the head and neck with blood) indicating blockage — substantially increases the risk of cardiovascular death and ...

A bruit - a kind of blowing noise heard via stethoscope over the carotid arteries in the neck - may indicate a raised risk of heart disease. Call me old-fashioned, but I like to think that one of the ...

Question: I had a routine physical by a physician’s assistant. He said he heard something called a bruit in my neck. He seemed concerned about this and said that it needs to be looked into or I could ...

Heart attack risk can be heard by listening for a certain noise in the artery supplying blood to the brain, US researchers have said. Heart attack risk can be heard by listening for a certain noise in ...

CAMDEN, N.J. (WPVI) -- Have you been told you have diseased or clogged carotid arteries (carotid stenosis)? Are you nervous about what this may mean in terms of your risk of stroke? Here are some ...

SELDOM do physicians, including ophthalmologists, employ auscultation over the face and head areas as an adjunct to clinical observation. More routine use of the stethoscope over the eyeball itself ...

Most of the patients who had carotid revascularization for asymptomatic carotid disease were diagnosed on the basis of carotid imaging tests ordered for uncertain or inappropriate indications, ...