Heart murmurs
Anything wrong?

Usually, heart murmurs don't mean anything is wrong. Everyone's heart makes sounds. Some people have hearts that make more noise than others. Extra noises heard with each heartbeat, an extra or abnormal sound produced by the heart and heard with the stethoscope. Some occur even though the heart and blood vessels are completely normal.

The normal sound of your heart is “lub-dub, lub-dub,…” And depending on your age, your heart beats about 60 to 120 times every minute. Each heartbeat is really two separate sounds: lub then dub. Your heart goes "lub" with the closing of the valves that control blood flow from the upper chambers to the lower chambers. Then, as the valves controlling blood going out of the heart close, your heart goes "dub."

Many parents fear the worst when their child is diagnosed with a heart murmur, but it's important to know that this diagnosis is extremely common. They are a common finding in routine examination of infants and children. 50% of normal children have an innocent murmur. Nearly two thirds of murmurs in children are produced by a normal heart. Many normal children have heart murmurs, but most children do not have heart disease

A heart valve problem may cause heart murmurs that needs further investigation

Though some are innocent, others are a sign of a more serious heart problem. Defective heart valves most often cause serious murmurs. Murmurs are audible successive sounds with distinct duration, as opposed to normal heart sounds, which are short transitory events. They may be classified as:

• innocent
• functional
• pathologic

The first two are usually innocent and often require little or no treatment.

However, pathological murmurs can be caused by congenital abnormalities present at birth, such as defective heart valves. A stenotic heart valve has a smaller-than-normal opening and can't open completely. A valve may also be unable to close completely. This leads to blood leaking backward through the valve when it should be closed.

They can also be caused by conditions such as pregnancy, fever, an overactive thyroid gland or anemia. A diastolic murmur occurs when the heart muscle relaxes between beats. A systolic murmur occurs when the heart muscle contracts.

How to deal with Heart Murmurs

If you've been short of breath, had chest pain, felt dizzy, or fainted, get the doctor to listen to your heart, check your pulse, and listen to your lungs. A chest X-ray can be done to see if the heart looks bigger than normal. You might get an electrocardiogram, which measures electrical activity of the heart. Another test is an echocardiogram that uses sound waves to make a picture of the heart as blood is pumped through its chambers and valves.

The information from the tests may determine if your murmur is likely to cause a problem for you. If it is of concern you need to be careful about getting infections that could travel to the heart and cause inflammation.

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Standard medical treatments may include antibiotics before you see the dentist or have any surgery. You may also be prescribed medicine to help the heart squeeze harder, prevent blood clots, remove extra fluid from the body, or lower your blood pressure.

In some cases, surgery is necessary to fix the problem. Depending on the problem, surgery can patch a hole in the heart, fix a valve, rebuild a blood vessel, or open a blood vessel that's too narrow.

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Most of the time, heart murmurs aren't a big problem. And most people can live just like everybody else. It is simply a sound. It's not always the sign of a heart problem. Everyone's heart makes sounds, but some people have hearts that make more noise than others. Usually, however, these heart murmurs don't mean anything is wrong.