Today we finally met with Dr. Zittergruen the St. Luke's Pediatric Cardiologist for consult regarding the heart murmur that was discovered while Kaden was in the NICU. The Dr. said that Kaden's chest x-ray and EKG were both un-remarkable and he was also impressed with how good of a boy he was by behaving and just calmly looking up at the Dr. so he could really get a good listen to his heart!!! The Dr. said he thinks what Kaden has is just what they consider a benign pediatric murmur called a "Still's murmur". Doctor Z said it is nothing to worry about and related to his prematurity and slight anemia that he has basically recovered himself from.... he should probably fully grow out of it by the time he is a year old. He wants to see Kaden back the end of July to just check up on things and the Dr. said that if at that time he had any concerns we would do a Echo. Oh....and of course they did weigh him again, and he was 9 lbs 4 oz today!!!
~Still's Murmur Info Link~
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