{"id":52,"date":"2017-09-17T19:46:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T02:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreklewetz.com\/asd\/?p=52"},"modified":"2020-11-18T07:25:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:25:58","slug":"echo-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/2017\/09\/17\/echo-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Echo Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-105 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_5436-1-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I requested a copy of my echo report right when I was at the hospital, so it already arrived- that was fast! However, I found it concerning. I mean, I&#8217;m extremely grateful that this defect was found. It was a complete fluke that it was discovered and I&#8217;m so happy that it was before it did real, <em>serious, <\/em>irreparable\u00a0damage, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I can&#8217;t be concerned. The report sounds more serious than Dr. D. made it sound. Maybe he just didn&#8217;t want me to freak out for two months while waiting for my MRI, and I guess he doesn&#8217;t have all the info yet; he wants the MRI to confirm the diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the report says that my right atrium and right ventricle are dilated, which I know is a bad thing because too much strain on the right side of the heart leads to right-side heart failure. My inferior vena cava is also dilated, which makes sense because it&#8217;s connected to the right side of the heart, so it&#8217;s getting stretched out. I have mild <a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/ency\/article\/000169.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tricuspid regurgitation<\/a>, which also makes sense since the right side is enlarged, so the tricuspid valve isn&#8217;t closing properly. Getting technical here, but QP\/QS= 2.23 (Pulmonary-Systemic Shunt Ratio) and from my research, anything 1.5 and over is surgical. So now I&#8217;m worried. Yes, I&#8217;ve been researching way too much, but I can&#8217;t shut off my librarian brain. Research is what I do.<\/p>\n<p>MRI is scheduled for November 16th, so now I wait&#8230; and worry about claustrophobia and having a panic attack in the small MRI tube.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I requested a copy of my echo report right when I was at the hospital, so it already arrived- that was fast! However, I found it concerning. I mean, I&#8217;m extremely grateful that this defect was found. It was a complete fluke that it was discovered and I&#8217;m so happy that it was before it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-52","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-journey","7":"tag-echo","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}