Mitral Valve Regurgitation/Prolapse

I received a thorough bare chested heart auscultation from a female Naturopathic Doctor (ND) today.

She is one of the few doctor's I've seen who are skillful enough at cardiac auscultation to hear my heart murmur.

She told me that my it may be Mitral Valve Regurgitation.

Does anyone here also have it? How does it sound to you?

You need a ecg now And a full diagnostic work up including ultrasound.

I ear one in a friend. It's like a "sfuf" and it's near left nipple, under. It's ver intresting to ear. Low bpm is the best condition to ear i think

I was diagnosed with MVP with mild regurgitation almost two decades ago. My current doctor doesn't really agree with that diagnosis, as he thinks it's more of a flow murmur. Besides the yearly EKG that he does and auscultation, no further testing has been done on it in over two decades. But he also doesn't really listen right over my apex. I live an active, athletic lifestyle with no symptoms.

And yes, regurgitant murmurs like that are easier heard when the heart is slow. Mitral regurgitation often occurs past S2. In MVP, the valve is still rather efficient so the regurgitation stops at S2.

Most of the time MVP is not really problem. It's more common in females but occurs in both males and females. I have a friend who was diagnosed with MVP when she was 13, and she just turned 70. The "classic click" of MVP is not an issue in and of itself, what matters is how much regurgitation there is. Most people with MVP don't have a significant amount of regurgitation. It is often missed in females because doctors often don't have a woman take off her bra for heart listening unless they already suspect or know about a heart problem. The doctor has to get the steth up under a woman's breast to get a good listen at the mitral valve, which is where you would hear a mitral click and/or regurgitation.

I was diagnosed with a mild Mitral Valve Insufficiency, which I think it's the same, during an echocardiogram.

Using the color doppler the cardiologist saw it but it didn't reported to me, he was having a trainee in that moment and so saying everything at her and then I heard, even if I was not able to see the monitor since it was behind me.

When I auscultate my heart with the stethoscope I think to hear a systolic murmur but not every time