What causes thickened anterior mitral valve leaflet with mild prolapse what should i do now

Usually MVP doesn't cause any problems. Almost all kids who have it lead totally normal lives. Lots of times people don't even know they have it or don't find out until they're adults. It's not discovered in kids very much. Sometimes people are born with MVP, or it can develop during a person's life. Doctors often don't know why someone has MVP.

Signs and Symptoms

Many kids with MVP have no symptoms. In some kids, the flaps of the mitral valve make a clicking sound when they close. A doctor may hear this when listening to the heart with a stethoscope. Someone who has MVP and a little blood leaking back through the valve may also have a heart murmur. A heart murmur is the sound caused by the leaking blood.

Kids with MVP may also:

* feel dizzy or light-headed

* feel anxious

* be really tired

* get out of breath when playing or exercising

* feel that their heart is skipping beats or beating very fast

* have chest pain

* have fainting episodes

What Will the Doctor Do?

Most kids who learn they have MVP find out about it during a regular checkup. The doctor may be listening to the kid's heart and hear a click or a murmur. The doctor then will send the kid to a pediatric cardiologist (say: pee-dee-ah-trik kar-dee-ah-luh-jist), a doctor who treats heart conditions in kids.

First, the cardiologist will talk to you and your parents for a while and ask some questions about your health. Then he or she will examine you and listen to your heart. The doctor also may order some tests, like an echocardiogram (say: eh-koh-kar-dee-uh-gram) and an electrocardiogram (say: ee-lek-troh-kar-dee-uh-gram) (EKG). The tests can help the doctor find out what's causing the different sound in your heart.