O treatment of heart murmur can be varied. The heart murmur is a sign of a disease and not a disease in itself. It is necessary to evaluate the disease that is causing the murmur and to carry out a specific treatment, according to this causative disease.
Benign murmurs require no treatment, while murmurs caused by fever or anemia disappear after treatment. Injury of the valves requires more complex treatment.
If the valve injury causes no more effort to the heart and there is no possibility of leading to heart failure, treatment is done clinically, with medications to decrease cardiac work, or prevent other diseases from impairing the functioning of the heart, such as hypertension .
In the most severe situations, with an important valve lesion, cardiac surgery may be indicated to:
- Valve plasticity;
- Defective native valve replacement by an artificial valve, which may be biological or metallic;
- Heart transplant.
The doctor cardiologist you should evaluate the disease that is leading to the murmur and advise you on proper treatment.
