Hi,
I am a thin healthy 25/F and the the only known condition I suffer from is anxiety. I was recently diagnosed with a grade 1 systolic heart murmur at the left sternal edge during a routine physical. I had an echo done and they told me it was totally fine, just some trivial tricuspid regurg, but nothing to worry about. They told me there would be no follow-up.
My only concern is that my grandmother died in her early 50's of what I have been told was asthma, but nobody talks about it much. I was just wondering if she could have been misdiagnosed with asthma and there is some sort of cardiomyopathy in my family that could have been missed on the echo? I have read about apical HCM and that it can be missed?? There is no other known heart disease in my family and I am asymptomatic. I am also quite thin (50 kg/110 lbs and 5'5).
Thanks,
Jacqueline