Originally Posted by
Radgirl
Hi
A murmur is caused by turbulent blood flow through the heart. This can be congenital (perseverence of the foetal blood flow) or acquired (eg a leaking valve). It can also occur without an anatomical cause and this is a flow murmur which means you have no pathology or risk.
Normally we would just do an ultrasound of the heart called an echocardiogram as it is cheap and will tell you the anatomical cause of the noise. A cardiac MRI is a v expensive way to get the same result.
You need to ask your cardiologist to show you the result of the MRI and explain what is wrong. Once the pathology is known it is possible to work out if there is a risk or not of incapacitation and whether your regulator is correct or incorrect. Answers to your other questions then follow
Good luck
Good morning,
I think you have misunderstood
I have already had an MRI, a stress echo and an echocardiography and all the results are good since I obtained my class 1 after having presented them all my tests. It is the tests that I have to do every 3 years that I have a problem with, they gave them to me as a precaution to follow the evolution (while all the cardiologists tell me that it is a benign murmur). My cardiologist told me that they gave me these tests to do every 3 years to be sure that everything is fine to cover themselves if there is a problem afterwards. But doing these tests again every 3 years is just stressful for me! That's why I would like to know if there would be any solution to remove these tests every 3 years, by what means?