What Is a Pps Murmur

This murmur is typically heard at 1 to 2 months of age. Babies with this type of murmur are typically born with relatively small blood vessels to the lungs. After the main trunk of the pulmonary artery leaves the heart, it branches to the right and the left lung.

What does PPS murmur sound like?

Innocent PPS Murmurs When the blood gets pumped from the large artery leaving the heart and enters these smaller pulmonary arteries, there is very often some turbulence, and the blood makes a whooshing noise similar that that of water going through a bend in a garden hose.

What is PPS heart?

Peripheral pulmonary stenosis, PPS, is the term used to describe narrowing of the arteries that take de-oxygenated (blue) blood from the right ventricle to the lungs. Some doctors may also call it branch pulmonary artery stenosis, because it occurs at the branch points of the main pulmonary artery.