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What Causes Congenital Cardiomegaly?
My nephew is 4 days old diagnosed with cardiomegaly. Test results are not back with what is causing/caused this.They are treating him with beta blockers right now to keep him from going back into SVT. We have no answers, the doctors here are great but have only heard of a few cases like his. Any information?
Mon, 12 Dec 2016
Hi...I feel the SVT might be the initiating event for this cardiomegaly. It is good that the doctors are doing their best to prevent SVT from recurring. But usually SVT is idiopathic, that means no certain reason can be ascertained. No way we can predict whether it will recur or not. But be reassured that now there are good medicines to prevent it from recurring.
Regards - Dr. Sumanth
Regards - Dr. Sumanth
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