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What Does My Echocardiographic Stress Test Report Indicate?

Posted on Mon, 2 Feb 2015

Question: Hi, I have a daughter she's now 4 months, she has a congenital heart problem, doctor wrote on a letter "Echo showed situs solitus with AVVA concordance and mid-muscular VSD with a velocity of more than 4.3m/s. The heart was balanced without any valvular leaks laminar flow across the large big arteries in clinic pulmonary arteries and its branches and descending aorta velocity was 1m/s

So my impression is she has got a VSD which is mid-muscular unlikely to require any intervention. "

Could you please advise if she can travel for 10 hours on a plane for holidays for one month to bogota which is 8800f or 2600m above sea level, we live in London which is aprox 30m above sea level, so would such a big increase in altitude wouldn't make any problem? Her heart would be ok with that? Thank you.

Answered by Dr. Arun (3 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Yes it is ok

Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thanks for writing to us.

Yes you can take your daughter.
Travelling in a flight and spending time in Bogota should not be a problem.
As you mentioned mid muscular VSD is unlikely to cause any problems.
It is safe. Don't worry.

Wishing your child good health.
Regards
Dr Arun

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Bhagyalaxmi Nalaparaju