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What Causes Heaviness In Chest In ASD Patients?

I am 25 yrs old and I have and ASD and for the past few days my chest has really been bothering me. It feels as if there is an elephant sitting on my chest and I have been short of breath it is something that I have experienced in the past but usually goes away it does not seem to be going anywhere this time...
Fri, 4 Jul 2014
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Hi,
Welcome to HCM forum,
ASD is not known to cause such symptoms which you described. I hope the size of ASD is small. If i were your physician, I would like you to get a detail cardiac evaluation for your symptoms. I would like to have an ecg, echo, chest xray and then rule out the severity of the problem.
Take care.
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What Causes Heaviness In Chest In ASD Patients?

Hi, Welcome to HCM forum, ASD is not known to cause such symptoms which you described. I hope the size of ASD is small. If i were your physician, I would like you to get a detail cardiac evaluation for your symptoms. I would like to have an ecg, echo, chest xray and then rule out the severity of the problem. Take care. Happy to help.