not necessarily...
not necessarily...
Cork, I have identical twin sons, age 22. When they were 5 years old, one of my twins had a heart murmur that we had evaluated by a pediatric cardiologist at Primary Children's in Salt Lake. There were no tests done, just listening to his heart. With all the stuff that has been talked about here concerning the heritability of BAV and testing our children etc., I talked with the nurse (at the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic at the University of Utah) that especially deals with patients with valve problems, and asked her about this son and whether or not he should be tested further. I also asked if he does have a problem with his valve, would it be likely that his brother would too. She said No. Often times the problems develop as the baby develops in the womb, and they often (usually) find that even with identical twins, only one is affected. My cardiologist agreed with that when I asked him the same question...