Pulmonary valve

Pulmonary valve
Anterior (frontal) view of the opened heart. White arrows indicate normal blood flow.
Heart seen from above.
Details
Latin	valva trunci pulmonalis
Identifiers
Gray's	p.532
MeSH	A07.541.510.738
TA	A12.1.02.010
FMA	7246
Anatomical terminology

The pulmonary valve (sometimes referred to as the pulmonic valve) is the semilunar valve of the heart that lies between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery and has three cusps. Similar to the aortic valve, the pulmonary valve opens in ventricular systole, when the pressure in the right ventricle rises above the pressure in the pulmonary artery. At the end of ventricular systole, when the pressure in the right ventricle falls rapidly, the pressure in the pulmonary artery will close the pulmonary valve.

The closure of the pulmonary valve contributes the P2 component of the second heart sound (S2). The right heart is a low-pressure system, so the P2 component of the second heart sound is usually softer than the A2 component of the second heart sound. However, it is physiologically normal in some young people to hear both components separated during inhalation.

Additional images

Interior of right side of heart.
Front of thorax, showing surface relations of bones, lungs (purple), pleura (blue), and heart (red outline). Heart valves are labeled with "B", "T", "A", and "P".
Pulmonary valves
Pulmonary valves

External links

Media related to Pulmonary valve at Wikimedia Commons
Anatomy figure: 20:07-00 at Human Anatomy Online, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Adult Congenital Surgery: Pulmonary Valve Replacement

Anatomy of the heart

General

Surface

Internal

atria interatrial septum pectinate muscles terminal sulcus ventricles interventricular septum trabeculae carneae chordae tendineae papillary muscle valves cusps atrioventricular septum

cardiac skeleton intervenous tubercle

Chambers

Right heart	(venae cavae, coronary sinus) → right atrium (atrial appendage, fossa ovalis, limbus of fossa ovalis, crista terminalis, valve of inferior vena cava, valve of coronary sinus) → tricuspid valve → right ventricle (conus arteriosus, moderator band/septomarginal trabecula) → pulmonary valve → (pulmonary artery and pulmonary circulation)

Left heart	(pulmonary veins) → left atrium (atrial appendage) → mitral valve → left ventricle → aortic valve (aortic sinus) → (aorta and systemic circulation)

Layers

Endocardium	heart valves

Myocardium	conduction system: cardiac pacemaker SA node AV node bundle of His Purkinje fibers

Pericardial cavity	pericardial sinus

Pericardium	fibrous pericardium sternopericardiac ligaments serous pericardium epicardium/visceral layer fold of left vena cava

Blood supply

Coronary circulation

Index of the heart

Description	Anatomy Physiology Development

Disease	Injury Congenital Neoplasms and cancer Other Symptoms and signs eponymous Blood tests

Treatment	Procedures Drugs glycosides other stimulants antiarrhythmics vasodilators

Pulmonary valve

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