Suggest Treatment For Heart Murmurs And Chest Pain In A Child

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 revealed by an echocardiogram which should already have been done and should be helpful. Venticular septal defects are by far most common amonst congenital heart diseases. There could have been other defects as well. 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. The left side of the heart is stronger and hence normally oxygenated blood gets mixed with the deoxygeneated one from right side. With time, due to load on the right side of the heart, this flow may be reversed when deoxygenatd blood gets pumped to the left sided oxygenated circulation and the problem now becomes grave. In most cases atrial septal defects close spontaneous with time. But at other times intervention might be required. Your doctor would be able to tell better. Without an echocardiogram report it is not possible for me to be more precise. You can get an echocardiogram done first and then consult a doctor. You can even directly put the reports to me directly (please click on the link on my name and post a query) with the report and I would be happy to help you further. Hope that will take care of your query for now. Feel free to communicate back in case of further queries if any.