Anatom3DAnterior cardiac vein
Venae cardiacae anteriores · Přední srdeční žíly
Veins
Looks like
Two to four short veins on the front of the right ventricle.
What it does
Carry blood from the right ventricle wall straight into the right atrium.
Keeping it well
Not usually a site of disease; they matter only in some heart surgery.
Related conditions
- 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge)
- Aortic stenosis
- Atrial flutter
- Cardiomyopathy (dilated, restrictive, arrhythmogenic)
- Chagas disease
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Congenital heart defects
- Coronary artery disease
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Diphtheria
- Down syndrome (trisomy 21)
- Eating disorders
- Extra heartbeats (ectopics and palpitations)
- Fainting (syncope)
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Heart failure
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Long QT syndrome
- Myocarditis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Panic disorder
- Pericardial effusion & tamponade
- Pericarditis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Sudden cardiac arrest
- Sudden infant death syndrome
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Takotsubo (stress) cardiomyopathy
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Varicose veins
- Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome