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Why The X-ray Report Shows Dark Spots On My Baby S Chest With Enlarged Heart?
My 8 week old baby has the whooping cough, he recently was admitted to hospital as doctors are concerned about him throwing up and him being irratable. Xray shows dark spots on his chest and an enlarged heart? What does this mean? He is going to have an MRI today to check the heart.
Tue, 15 Sep 2015
Hi,
Welcome to Hcm
Your query has 2 aspects..
Let me deal with it one by one.
First of all big heart in the xray is a need to evaluate the status of the heart in an infant. The causes can vary from a simple infection related change to a major abnormal dilatation of the heart or can be normal in some children. It surely warrants an echo evaluation and hope there won't be anything abnormal finding.
Dark spots on the chest is not very clear to me. If you mean dark spots on the xray then it can mean aerated areas which can be normal such as bronchial markings. It is hard to comment on it without seeing an xray. So I am sorry I can't be of help for that query. If you may revert to me with some more details may be a pic of the xray , then would be of great help to explain.
Hope your child gets well soon..
Take care
Welcome to Hcm
Your query has 2 aspects..
Let me deal with it one by one.
First of all big heart in the xray is a need to evaluate the status of the heart in an infant. The causes can vary from a simple infection related change to a major abnormal dilatation of the heart or can be normal in some children. It surely warrants an echo evaluation and hope there won't be anything abnormal finding.
Dark spots on the chest is not very clear to me. If you mean dark spots on the xray then it can mean aerated areas which can be normal such as bronchial markings. It is hard to comment on it without seeing an xray. So I am sorry I can't be of help for that query. If you may revert to me with some more details may be a pic of the xray , then would be of great help to explain.
Hope your child gets well soon..
Take care
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