Anatom3DBranch of anterior choroidal artery to posterior limb of internal capsule
Rami capsulae internae arteriae choroideae anterioris · Větve přední cévnatkové tepny k zadnímu raménku vnitřního pouzdra
Heart & arteries
Looks like
Tiny branches of the anterior choroidal artery that pierce the brain to reach the back limb of the internal capsule.
What it does
Supply part of the internal capsule, where movement and sensory fibres to the opposite half of the body run tightly packed.
Keeping it well
A small stroke here can paralyse the whole opposite side. Controlling blood pressure lowers the risk.
Related conditions
- Brain aneurysm
- Carotid artery stenosis
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Ischaemic stroke
- Kawasaki disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Retinal artery occlusion (eye stroke)
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Takayasu arteritis
- Transient ischaemic attack
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)