Anatom3DCaudal pancreatic artery
Arteria caudae pancreatis · Tepna ocasu slinivky
Heart & arteries
Looks like
Small branches from the end of the splenic artery entering the tail of the pancreas near the spleen.
What it does
Supply the tail of the pancreas.
Keeping it well
Relevant in removal of the pancreatic tail or spleen; small and rarely a problem.
Related conditions
- Acute liver failure
- Acute porphyria
- Alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens
- Alcohol-related liver disease
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Bile duct cancer (cholangiocarcinoma)
- Biliary atresia
- Brucellosis
- Cirrhosis
- Dengue & mosquito-borne fevers
- Ebola virus disease
- Echinococcosis (hydatid disease)
- Eye melanoma (uveal melanoma)
- Gilbert's syndrome
- Haemochromatosis & Wilson's disease
- Hepatic encephalopathy
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Intestinal worms & schistosomiasis
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
- Kawasaki disease
- Leishmaniasis
- Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
- Liver abscess (pyogenic and amoebic)
- Liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma)
- Malaria
- Metabolic fatty liver disease (MASLD)
- Metabolic syndrome
- Myelofibrosis
- Newborn jaundice
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Phenylketonuria (PKU)
- Poisoning & overdose
- Portal vein thrombosis and Budd–Chiari syndrome
- Pre-eclampsia
- Primary biliary cholangitis
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Viral hepatitis (A, B, C, D, E)
- Yellow fever