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Can Gasping / Chest Pain Be Attributed To Heart Murmur As An Infant?

hi my daughter was born with a heart mermer when she was a month old they checked her heart again and says shes got a pin prick in her heart now that shes turned five she doing alot of gasping when breathimg in and out and sayd shes doing it cos her chest is sore any idear if itsbthat again
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Thanks for posting your query at HealthCareMagic. The details that you have provided are not adequate to make out whether your child has an atrial septal defect or a ventriclar septal defect. The actual information would have been helpful. In any case, such communications between two chambers allows mixing of purified and impure blood from two different sides of the heart. As a result the oxygen saturation in blood may come down and your child would be gasping for breath. The flow of the blood through the narrow opening causes murmur that you are referring to. In most cases atrial septal defects close spontaneous with time. But at other times interventin might be required. Your doctor would be able to tell better.

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Can Gasping / Chest Pain Be Attributed To Heart Murmur As An Infant?

Thanks for posting your query at HealthCareMagic. The details that you have provided are not adequate to make out whether your child has an atrial septal defect or a ventriclar septal defect. The actual information would have been helpful. In any case, such communications between two chambers allows mixing of purified and impure blood from two different sides of the heart. As a result the oxygen saturation in blood may come down and your child would be gasping for breath. The flow of the blood through the narrow opening causes murmur that you are referring to. In most cases atrial septal defects close spontaneous with time. But at other times interventin might be required. Your doctor would be able to tell better. Hope that will take care of your query. Feel free to communicate back in case of further queries if any.