My civie has a heart murmur

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Hi,

Haven't posted in several months because my computer has been down. Was just wondering what special care Amy may
need. Took her to the vet 2 weeks ago and the vet found heart murmur. Her blood work all came back good. She had a senior profile. She needs an electrocardiogram. I just managed to come up with the money to pay for it so I will be doing that soon.
Is this necessarily serious or will she just need special care?
 
A lot of murmurs are benign and cause no problems. They are usually graded on a scale of I through VI. Are you getting an electrocardiogram (electrical leads attached to body) and electrical signals graphed) and/or echocardiogram (looking at heart via ultrasound).

Here is a link on murmurs

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As Larry said, a lot of murmurs don't cause problems at all; my Gwyn was diagnosed with one when she was four months old and she lived 20 years. But I understand that other types/grades of murmurs may be more problematic, so getting it checked out would be a good thing when you can afford it.
 
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Unless your cat has an irregular heartbeat, if you have to choose between echocardiogram (sonogram of the heart) or an electrocardiogram (EKG, a tracing on paper of the heartbeat), go for the echo. This will tell you definitively what is causing the murmur.
 
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