Echocardiogram Results Question
Hi everyone!
Please let me know if this is an inappropriate forum for this question.
I have Marfan Syndrome, I'm in my mid-twenties, and I've been crazy lucky to not have any major complications until the last few years. I was admitted recently due to fainting episodes, sudden exercise intolerance, and tachyarrhythmias (BPM sometimes 130-180 when moving and occasionally at rest).
They gave me multiple different LVEF readings: 37% on the portion of the report where it breaks down all the measurements, then 49% on some of my other discharge paperwork. Then the cardiologist I spoke to said she wasn't sure if it was 50% or 65%, but said it didn't matter. I sent the documents to the cardiologist at my Marfan clinic, and she's a bit confused by the results. Apparently the calculations appear to point towards the lower function, but the official report says 50%. In March my echo was 63%; do these readings fluctuate a lot depending on how your body is doing?
It was just a quick echo in the ER so I'm not sure if there's different ones that are performed. The hospital sent me home with a beta-blocker so I'm assuming everything is normal and the different readings were just errors. I'm still waiting to hear back from the clinic, so it's mostly a question for curiosity's sake haha. Please let me know if I need to clarify anything! I work in healthcare, but I don't usually spend time reading echocardiogram readouts so there's a major chance I'm just misreading something.
