7 year old cat w/ systolic heart murmur. Unable to find turbulance on color flow. There is focal thickening of the IVS near outflow, but no SAMe. In the above JPEG on PW, looks like there may be a little TR, but can’t see it on color. Also looks like the could be some DRVOTO. I feel like I have this problem relatively frequently feeling unsure of the murmur cause. May be my color flow settings, but have tried to trouble shoot changing the MAP setting, spacial filter and PRF, but still having trouble. For this cat, I don’t see any functional problems
7 year old cat w/ systolic heart murmur. Unable to find turbulance on color flow. There is focal thickening of the IVS near outflow, but no SAMe. In the above JPEG on PW, looks like there may be a little TR, but can’t see it on color. Also looks like the could be some DRVOTO. I feel like I have this problem relatively frequently feeling unsure of the murmur cause. May be my color flow settings, but have tried to trouble shoot changing the MAP setting, spacial filter and PRF, but still having trouble. For this cat, I don’t see any functional problems or chamber enlargement, so wondering if you could give some guidance of the most likely cause of murmur?
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welcome to the “flow murmur”
welcome to the “flow murmur” club in cats:) You can’t always find the source of murmurs in cats… because they are cats:) Cats get murmurs when the “weather” changes in their metabolism or age bottom line is that Starling is in the house and happy… in other words volumes, contractility, chambers, and thicknesses are all good… “normal echo with flow murmur.”
Thank you!
Thank you!