Dorsal pancreatic artery

Looks like

An artery usually from the start of the splenic artery, running down behind the neck of the pancreas.

What it does

Supplies the pancreas body and gives the inferior pancreatic artery.

Keeping it well

Its origin varies; matters in pancreatic surgery and in pancreatitis, where it can form pseudoaneurysms.

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