Thursday, August 11, 2011

Need help deciphering echocardiogram results?

what it means basically is that everything is normal and you have a valve that allows a very slight back flow of blood that is not enough to allow for any concern. chances are at your age, you might very easily grow out of it seeing has how everything else is well within the normal limits. what you're looking for is the LV (left ventricle) ejection fraction which tells you how much blood the largest and hardest working part of the heart is pumping. your is almost perfect. the atria are the top sections of the heart and are normal size. the aortic is trileaflet (three flaps make up the valve) which is normal. systolic pressure is teh amount of pressure prior to the ventricles contracting and that is well within norms at 23mmHg (measurement of pressure). #6 is a bit confusing since PDA is not a normally used accronym but the ASD and VSD are about the size of the ventricles and atriums and wall size. none of this gives you a murmur. a murmur is a leaking of blood back thru one of the valves and is usually the tricuspid valve (blood going to lungs) and is no big deal as long as it is listed as innocent or nonfunctional. trivial tricuspid regurg is simply a ridiculously small amount of blood is leaking back through the valve from the left ventricl to the left atrium. no big deal. 90% of all people develop some form of regurg in their lifetimes. you'll just have to face the fact that you are healthy.

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