Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction (patient information)
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editors-In-Chief:
Overview
The pulmonary artery is the main artery leaving the heart. When blood leaves the heart, it flows from the lower chamber (the left ventricle), through the pulmonic valve, into the pulmonary artery. In pulmonic stenosis, the pulmonic valve does not open fully. This restricts blood flow from the heart to lungs.
What are the symptoms of pulmonic stenosis?
You may have no symptoms at all until late in the course of the disease. The diagnosis may have been made when your healthcare provider heard a heart murmur and then performed additional tests.
Symptoms in adults:
- Breathlessness with activity.
- Chest pain, which resembles what is known as angina-type pain.
- The pain is crushing, squeezing, pressure or tightness in nature.
- The pain increases with exercise, relieved with rest.
- The patient feels pain under the chest bone, it may move to other areas.
- Fainting, weakness, or dizziness with activity.
- Sensation of feeling the heart beat (palpitations).