A few weeks ago I had a very bad chest infection which left atelactesis in my lung.The chest xray at the time showed my heart was enlarged. When I had a second xray 6 weeks later it showed my heart was normal size.Why did this happen? I thought an enlarged heart was like any other muscle,and once bigger it stayed like that.
Has anyone any experience of this?
Hi I went into AF last July and after many investigations my heart was enlarged on both atria and left ventricle,since then they found a hole in my heart,I've gone back into sinus rhythm,but my heart is now a normal size! Like you I didn't know the heart could do this, but pleased it has
Yes, hearts can go back to normal size, mine did after treatment for cardiomyopathy.
If the first x-ray was taken while you were sitting on a stretcher,this view often exaggerates the size of the heart compared to a chest x-ray taken while the patient stands with the x-ray taken from the back. PA view vs AP view.
I sometimes wonder who reads the xrays, ecgs, echoes etc. I have seen on my reports, at different times, the following: atelectasis, cardiomegaly (enlarged heart) 50% blockage LAD, diastolic dysfunction, etc. None of these has been mentioned to me. Last echo there was no cardiomegaly. DD wasn't mentioned and so on. I have given up wondering about these little 'mysteries'. (As said above, I have no idea where my COPD diagnosis came from. 🙄🤗
Bicuspid Valve and Enlarge Aorta
Enlarged aorta
Bicuspid aortic valve and enlarged ascending aorta. 
Anyone here whos had an Aortic Root Enlargement? 
