Anatom3DAnterior inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery
Arteria pancreaticoduodenalis inferior anterior · Přední dolní slinivkovo-dvanácterníková tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
The front branch of the inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery, running up in front of the pancreas head.
What it does
Supplies the front of the pancreas head and duodenum and joins the anterior superior artery.
Keeping it well
Removed in Whipple surgery; can form aneurysms when the coeliac trunk is narrowed.
Related conditions
- Acute mesenteric ischaemia (gut stroke)
- Aortic aneurysm
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)