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Old 7th Dec 2005, 12:03
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Horatio Leafblower
 
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Gidday,

Son I don't want to worry you but I was your age when a cardiology examination put me out of RAAF contention.

the GOOD news is that my bicuspid aortic valve (with mild regurgitation ejection click, aparrently) has not affected my Aviation career as a commercial pilot.

Wingman683, a RBBB is not a murmur - it is an electrical discrepancy in the cardiac tissue and can be transient. I had one show up on an ECG once, but never again, and can be merely an error in positioning the leads on your chest.

A heart murmur (in my case) was, as said above, an altered heart sound - instead of flub-dub, flub-dub, my heart says "flub-dubub, flub-dubub". I recall reading somewhere that a split second sound is the aortic valve, and a split first sound is the mitral valve.

A bicuspid aortic valve is sometimes associated with minor weaknesses in the connective tissue that forms your arteries. This is only experienced by about 5% of people with bicuspid valves, I am told.

Guess which group I am in?

The good news, again, is that these things are fixable.

Good luck and be sure to report back with your Cardio's report.
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