Heart murmur grades infants
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As your dog ages, all muscles in the body may become less toned. This reduction in tone includes the heart. The murmur may increase with age.
Your best bet for prognosis is to eventually have a cardiac workup including echocardiogram, EKG, chest X-Rays, and bloodwork. Heart medications, if necessary are very effective and some can even help to prevent further deterioration.
Sometimes there is nothing wrong with the heart valves, it is just the thick chest wall. Infants sometimes outgrow a heart murmur due to the fact that they are still growing and changing. Most likely the doctor will monitor the heart murmur. Wondering if you are pregnant and found out some news during your ultrasound?
Our job as cardiologists is to determine whether that murmur, or sound, is associated with a heart defect or is a “normal” or “innocent” murmur. The murmur is caused by turbulent blood flow for some reason. Normal or innocent murmurs are associated with normal turbulence and have no heart defects; they're very common, occurring in 2/3 of all children.
I've had a murmur for decades and never experienced any heart pain.
in 2008 they said they heard a murmur in my heart and when they checked me they said everything was fine and that they didnt see anthing..but i got one done today and they still heard the murmur again and this time they can see what the problem was which is minor mutual regurgitation..so the problem is growing it's growing slowly but its growing so thats why im worried.
Most murmurs can only be heard with the assistance of a stethoscope. A murmur may be heard in a normal heart, and may not necessarily caused by a structural defect in the heart itself. Murmurs may also be the result of various problems, such as narrowing or leaking of valves, or the presence of passages between chambers of the heart. Elevated blood pressure may not be related to the murmur.
No, it's not bad news. It's good news that this was found and that you can get it checked out. A lot of people have heart murmurs that are considered "benign;" in other words the heart murmur doesn't mean anything and won't hurt the person. The reason for you to see a cardiologist is to make sure that's all it is. Probably you will go once and not need to go back.
Dear Arvind,
A ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a hole between the lower two chambers of the heart. The “voice”, or murmur, that is heard is the turbulence of the blood going through the hole. A small defect typically does not cause problems and frequently closes by itself (often by age 12 months), though it depends on where the defect is located in the ventricular septum. I am not sure of the timing of the initial echocardiogram that you mention.
I don't know what they mean by abnormal QRS based on the settings in the machine? An abnormal QRS could have many underlying causes including heart block. Also, the murmur is a sound, but the severity of the murmur isn't listed. You don't say if you have any symptoms.
You are dealing with the weight issue, but the stress is just as high in risk.
Well, yestertday my son stayed after school to get his sports physical and during that time we were told that the doctor hear a heart murmur. Now this makes me feel like a awful parent because during fall ball Andrew complained of a chestpain and said he just felt different. I just thought he maybe over worked himself and gave him some cold water and told him to take a break. He has never complained of anything else but I still feel awful. How common are these heart murmurs?
What this tells me, is that the heart murmur must be very very slight. And, with a slight murmur in both of the babies, it is very likely to be a genetic thing. If only one of the babies had a heart murmur, I would think there was an abnormality that should be looked into.
I, personally, if they were mine, I wouldn't even worry about it especially if they were playing and eating normally. There are people that are born with heart murmurs, too.
I only know he had an ear infection and the vet found a muffled sound coming from his heart on examination, The vet told me it was a heart murmur, he also gave him water tablets to remove the fluid from his chest and lungs
3 weeks ago I was told his heart was much better, the dog himself is clinically
I posted on this site a few weeks ago when at pre-op assessment for shoulder surgery I was told I have a heart murmur and have to have an echocardiogram to eliminate the possibility of murmur being caused by leaky heart valve before they will operate I also have paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation. Today on a visit to my own doctor I asked her to check my heart out.
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