Anterior interventricular vein

Looks like

A vein in the front groove between the two ventricles, running beside the main front coronary artery.

What it does

Drains the front of both ventricles and the septum; it continues as the great cardiac vein.

Keeping it well

Rarely a problem itself; the artery beside it is the one most often blocked in heart attacks.

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