Hi
So we just got a letter back after my DS’ echocardiogram.
No sonography report included (so I’ve annoyingly got to request it through record archives) and literally a sentence saying…
’shows normal heart pumping function and no significant valve issues’.
This is a teen DS with pretty regular, significant symptoms (we think POTS) and our GP agreed he needed an Echo.
How do you read the second part of the sentence, knowing that he’s symptomatic, significantly underweight with an eating disorder and the sonographer specifically wrote down for the cardiologist to compare a previous Echo (done by same hospital) from a couple of years ago to measure the size of his heart?
The second part of the sentence could mean he literally has zero valve issues
(although he does has a partial right bundle branch block, diagnosed last year)or it could mean the cardiologist doesn’t think they’re significant enough to warrant telling us.
Just such a basic response.
This is the cardiologist who said when we went in with symptoms and querying POTS (as per GP’s advice), said “oh you don’t want any more diagnoses”.
Would you have expected more in this follow up letter?