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One year old diagnosed with innocent heart murmur (sounds like guitar string being plucked)- "unless it gets worse". how often do they get worse? why?
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Innocent murmur: What the doctor is saying is he thinks based on the sound of the murmur that it is innocent, meaning it is made from the turbulent flow through a normal heart. Sometimes murmurs can denote an anatomical issue. It is not that "an innocent murmur turns into a problem" but rather the doctor cannot say 100% that there is an anatomical issue unless an echo is done. So recommends follow-up
Answered 2/6/2015
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