Someone i know has a son who is 8 months and they just discovered he has a heart murmur?!


Question: Someone i know has a son who is 8 months and they just discovered he has a heart murmur.?
why wasn't that was discovered at birth...and why did it take so long to find itHealth Question & Answer


Answers:
No they are generally not fatal. I urge everyone with a murmur to get an Echo test by a Cardiologist to determine the cause of the murmur. Only then you can rest easy or be aware of possible future problems.

Some murmurs are related to valve abnormalities like mine was...it was first heard when I was a baby then seemingly went away or I had deaf doctors...at 35 it was heard again and I was diagnosed properly as having a valve defect and an aneurysm. I had open heart surgery a few years later to correct the problem. Its a hereditary condition, 2 of my sons got it from me.

Some doctors are not so good at hearing the murmur...Curiously, I have found doctors trained in India to be especially good at hearing heart murmurs.Health Question & Answer

It might be minor. I have a heart murmur that wasn't discovered until I was 8 YEARS old. A minor one is no big deal. I'm perfectly healthy, I just have to deal with doctors constantly pointing it out whenever I go for a checkup and have them ask "have you ever been checked."Health Question & Answer

I have one that wasn't discovered until I was 26.
They can very in severity - but no, they generally aren't dangerous, let alone fatalHealth Question & Answer



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