Heart Murmur In Cats Grade 2

Birth defects and feline cardiomyopathy cause serious murmurs and hyperthyroidism can also cause heart murmurs. He is 3 months old and the vet says he has a grade 2 heart murmur. Like a kitty and her catnip kidney failure and heart murmurs seem to go hand in hand.

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Heart murmur in cats grade 2. This type of murmur is benign not harmful. Heart murmurs are graded on a scale of 1 to 6. I got a call today and.

Dec 28 2009. Some normal adult cats may have an intermittent heart murmur that shows up. These are often difficult to hear and maybe overlooked if not too careful.

Heart murmurs in cats can be associated with structural heart disease pathological heart murmurs but a high percentage of cats with murmurs appear to have no evidence of structural heart disease non-pathological heart murmurs. Stan has a small murmur and you wouldnt even know it. The murmur may first appear at 6-8 weeks of age and a kitten with an innocent heart murmur will usually outgrow it by about 4-5 months of age.

A grade 1 murmur is barely audible a grade 2 murmur is louder and a grade 3 murmur is loud but not accompanied by a thrill. Thats because similar things cause them to rear their ugly heads and kidney failure itself often triggers heart murmurs. A new onset of heart murmur in adult cats should be evaluated.

Cats Protection will only refer a cat to a specialist if classed as grade 5 or 6. There are usually no external symptoms clinical signs of a heart murmur in itself. Many cats show no symptoms of heart disease says Gibbons.

How are heart murmurs assessed. I have a 9 week old kitten which has been diagnosed with a heart murmur grade 2. Vets grade heart murmurs on a scale of 1 to 5 from the barely audible grade 1 to the very loud grade 5.