Anatom3DLeft anterior cusp of pulmonary valve
Valvula semilunaris sinistra trunci pulmonalis · Levá poloměsíčitá chlopeň plicnice
Heart & arteries
Looks like
One of three pocket-shaped cusps of the valve at the exit of the right ventricle into the lung artery.
What it does
Fills and closes after each beat so blood does not fall back into the right ventricle.
Keeping it well
Narrowing is usually present from birth and can be widened with a balloon. A murmur in a child is checked with ultrasound.
Related conditions
- 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge)
- Aortic stenosis
- Atrial flutter
- Cardiomyopathy (dilated, restrictive, arrhythmogenic)
- Chagas disease
- Congenital heart defects
- Coronary artery disease
- Diphtheria
- Down syndrome (trisomy 21)
- Eating disorders
- Extra heartbeats (ectopics and palpitations)
- Fainting (syncope)
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Heart failure
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Infective endocarditis
- Kawasaki disease
- Long QT syndrome
- Metabolic syndrome
- Myocarditis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Panic disorder
- Pericardial effusion & tamponade
- Pericarditis
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Sudden cardiac arrest
- Sudden infant death syndrome
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Takotsubo (stress) cardiomyopathy
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Valve disease (stenosis & regurgitation)
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome