Does redundant mitral valve tissue still mean a structurally normal heart?

[fearfactor]

On my echocardiogram report, the result was "anterior mitral valve leaflet appears mildly redundant though no frank prolapse is seen" and "trivial mitral and tricuspid valve regurgitation."  Does this mean my heart is "structurally normal?"  I am asking because I have suspected (never caught on a monitor, Holter or 30 day event) NSVT runs and am concerned because I know that in a structurally normal heart these are benign but in a non-normal heart they can be dangerous.  Do I have mitral valve prolapse and if so do my test results foreshadow sudden cardiac death?

I realize I posted a question last month and am at the end of my 2 per 6 month limit so this will be my last until 6 months, just to let everyone know.

Thank you.

[Fran71]

Thanks Connie, you're so kind and helpful to so many people on this site! Thanks for understanding. I guess we all kind of start asking questions, then we come to terms with the problem and can then help others with similar problems, as you're doing now...

You wrote: "You know how your pulse feels with one pvc? Well, this is the same only it would be a lot of individual pvcs one after another, with no regular
beats in between."
I often have 2 or more PVCs one after another, but I thought that was called bigeminy. During what I think is bigeminy, if I feel my pulse I feel one strong beat followed by a pause, followed by another strong beat followed by a pause, then another strong beat and so on. I thought this was bigeminy. Do you think this is NSVT?

Thanks so much for yur patience!

Have a great day everyone
Fran

[Momto3]

Sorry for the earlier post to "Hankstar."  I understand he no longer posts on this board.  I remembered that he used to be great with the definitions and explaining some of the oddities that go along with ectopics.  Oh well....Next time, I have a run of ectopics, I'll try and catch what my pulse is doing.

[Momto3]

You're welcome.  You're right, once we travelled a road and become kind of familiar with it, we can show others the path.  Fortunately, we all travel different roads with different roadblocks and some throughways : )

Two pvcs in a row, with no regular beat in between, is called a couplet. Three in a row is a triplet, or some call it a run. Three of more can be referred to as nsvt, run, salvo.  Bigeminy is when every other beat is ectopic...Like this...lub-dub, lub-dubdub, lub-dub, lub-dubdub and so on.

It sounds like you might be experiencing a couplet.  Have you ever worn an event monitor?  Those are nice because you can press the "record" button when you feel the unusual beat. The recorder runs in a loop, so when you press record, it backtracks something like 30 seconds and records one minute (or more) of your heartbeat.  The event monitors are nice b/c the doctor can correlate what you are feeling to the recorded strip.

Feel free to post here or email anytime.  Have a great day!
Connie

[Momto3]

Hi Hank and Everyone!!

Can anyone help with the explanation of nsvt?  I posted a couple of comments above to Upbeat...I've heard nsvt is a run of 3 or more pvcs OR a somewhat minimized version of VT where the heart does not catch up with itself right away.  Is that the way others understand it?

[tickertock]

That beat-pause-beat-pause-beat-pause is typical of bigeminy PVCs. I had the feeling documented on ECG and it was a bigeminy, I really don't know what a "salvo" or run of PVCs of PVCs feel like.

[Momto3]

13 weeks...AND fewer palps....WOOHOO!!!  Great news!

Hang in there fearfactor...You've got wonderful times ahead of you  : )

Take care!  

connie