Heart murmurs in cats are weird. They can be really loud with barely any disease, they can severe disease with no murmur, or things can correlate they way you'd assume they would. If you want to know how her heart is doing, you could always get an echo, though a full cardiac work-up is probably going to run around $500-800. As far as anesthesia goes, there are certain drugs that they use that are much friendlier to the heart and if you tell the vet that she had problems before and they can look back in the records and see what drug was used and avoid it, then it shouldn't be a problem. Also, she will presumably be well-monitored during anesthesia. The teeth cleaning would be good to have done, especially before she has tooth problems. Because decay and infection and all sorts of nastiness can set in.
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Date: 2010-01-26 05:42 pm (UTC)As far as anesthesia goes, there are certain drugs that they use that are much friendlier to the heart and if you tell the vet that she had problems before and they can look back in the records and see what drug was used and avoid it, then it shouldn't be a problem. Also, she will presumably be well-monitored during anesthesia.
The teeth cleaning would be good to have done, especially before she has tooth problems. Because decay and infection and all sorts of nastiness can set in.