Ultrasound shows mitral valve prolapse, no heart murmur?!
Question: Ultrasound shows mitral valve prolapse, no heart murmur!?
They offered ultrasound screenings at work for a reduced rate, so I signed up!.
They did an echocardiogram that showed I have mitral valve prolapse, with mild regurgitation!.
The technician showed me how some blood that is supposed to leave the heart went back into it because the valve did not close right!.
I have never had a doctor tell me I had this, and do not have a heart murmur, at least not one ever detected by a doctor!.
I've had chest pain from time to time, but people said it was anxiety when I was younger!.
Is it possible to have this and not have a heart murmur!?
I haven't had any really bad effects that I am aware of from this so far!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
They did an echocardiogram that showed I have mitral valve prolapse, with mild regurgitation!.
The technician showed me how some blood that is supposed to leave the heart went back into it because the valve did not close right!.
I have never had a doctor tell me I had this, and do not have a heart murmur, at least not one ever detected by a doctor!.
I've had chest pain from time to time, but people said it was anxiety when I was younger!.
Is it possible to have this and not have a heart murmur!?
I haven't had any really bad effects that I am aware of from this so far!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
A murmur will only occur when whatever flow dynamics in your heart generates enough vibration to produce sound waves!. The severity of the regurgitation (back flow) does not correlate with the loudness of the murmur!. Some people can have very little regurgitation with loud murmurs while others with tremendous regurgitation barely make any noise at all!.
And the regurgitation occurs with each and every beat!. I don't know what the other respondents are talking about with their descriptions of the heart compensating for it with the "next" beat as each and every beat is using the same faulty valve and it subject to its flow characteristics!.
Your findings should be shared with your doctors, who can continue to monitor the amounts of regurgitation to ensure that it won't cause you a problem in the future!. You should also advise your dentist of this and be put on antibiotics prior to any dental procedures!. Whether of not this was the cause of your chest pain is open to debate!. While some instances of congestive failure (which in turn increases the work load on the heart, thereby causing angina) may be caused by an incompetent valve, the fact that you've run several marathons already and haven't collapsed suggest that the mitral regurgitation probably wasn't significant enough to produce it!. I would lean toward other causes!.
Good luck!.
RalphWww@Answer-Health@Com
And the regurgitation occurs with each and every beat!. I don't know what the other respondents are talking about with their descriptions of the heart compensating for it with the "next" beat as each and every beat is using the same faulty valve and it subject to its flow characteristics!.
Your findings should be shared with your doctors, who can continue to monitor the amounts of regurgitation to ensure that it won't cause you a problem in the future!. You should also advise your dentist of this and be put on antibiotics prior to any dental procedures!. Whether of not this was the cause of your chest pain is open to debate!. While some instances of congestive failure (which in turn increases the work load on the heart, thereby causing angina) may be caused by an incompetent valve, the fact that you've run several marathons already and haven't collapsed suggest that the mitral regurgitation probably wasn't significant enough to produce it!. I would lean toward other causes!.
Good luck!.
RalphWww@Answer-Health@Com
Yeah!.!.usually not a big deal, often see this in tall, small breasted females!.!.should be fine!.!.however a periodic ECG should be part of your routine Physical Exams!.!.!.Edit for St Pete!.!.Please check out any Merck Manual after 1985, it's a typical finding!.!.usually not pathological, and it's 'tall' 'small breasted women'!.!.that tend to have this problem!.!.No disrespect intended at all!.!.and in my practice, I have found this to be consistent!.!.usually, there is a faint I/VI-II/VI murmur, best auscultated at erbs or just left of MCL!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
It is possible to have a murmur that was undetected, or that could be new!. Some problems like these can occur from infections in the spleen etc!. A murmur is just an irregularity in your heart, causing your heart to make a different noise than most!. Many of the symptoms to a mitral valve prolapse are similar to that of anxiety!. Many people have this condition and do not have any ill effects!. Some require medicine, and a very minimal amount have surgery to correct it!. In most cases, medicine corrects it and surgery is unnecessary!. This does not have to keep you from a normal life, lots of people have it and never experience any problems!. If it does become a problem i!.e!. lightheadedness, swelling of legs, feet, chest pains, I would talk to your doctor!. Mild regurgitation means that sometimes your valve does not close properly and the blood flows backwards but then on the next heart beat, your heart corrects itself!. Often this is why a doctor hears a murmur, a change in the lub-lub rhythm of your heart!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
WOW! Are you lucky or what!!? The chances of that being caught at random are SO slim! Both myself and one of my younger sisters have the same condition, and yes, you can have it and no heart murmur!. A heart murmer is a different condition altogether!. MVP, for the most part, leaves you alone!. Your heart will "backfire" once in a while, and this will give you mild to moderate chest pain, and occasional atrial fibrilation (increased or abnormal heart rhythym) but when it does this, your following beat will literally force the blood to pump in the right direction!. You may want to take that into consideration, though, should you suddenly decide to run a marathon, and smoking will increase your painful "backfires"!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Morgan S: What the H3LL do small breasts have to do with mitral valve prolapse!?!!!?
And mitral valve prolapse, with regurgitation means that instead of the valve between the upper and lower chamber of you heart "snapping" closed when your heart beats, it "whooshes" since the valve won't close all the way and the blood, instead of going in a steady stream through the heart, "back washes" and the sound you hear when this happens is called a "murmur"!. The ventricle (bottom chamber) squeeze the blood out of the heart, but the valve between the chambers didn't close tight and some blood is pushed back up into the atria (upper chamber) !. A murmur is just a sound that the heart makes, so if you have this condition, you have a murmur, even if it is slight and a general practitioner couldn't distinguish it!. This condition also shouldn't cause chest pain!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
And mitral valve prolapse, with regurgitation means that instead of the valve between the upper and lower chamber of you heart "snapping" closed when your heart beats, it "whooshes" since the valve won't close all the way and the blood, instead of going in a steady stream through the heart, "back washes" and the sound you hear when this happens is called a "murmur"!. The ventricle (bottom chamber) squeeze the blood out of the heart, but the valve between the chambers didn't close tight and some blood is pushed back up into the atria (upper chamber) !. A murmur is just a sound that the heart makes, so if you have this condition, you have a murmur, even if it is slight and a general practitioner couldn't distinguish it!. This condition also shouldn't cause chest pain!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I have mitral Valve prolapse and have been on the same med to treat it since I was 16 (now in my mid 30's)!. I do not have a heart murmurWww@Answer-Health@Com