Anatom3DLeft renal artery
Arteria renalis sinistra · Levá ledvinná tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A short, wide artery from the side of the aorta to each kidney; the right one passes behind the vena cava.
What it does
Brings about a fifth of the heart's output to the kidneys to be filtered.
Keeping it well
Narrowing causes hard-to-control high blood pressure; about a quarter of people have an extra renal artery.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Acute kidney injury
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Chronic kidney disease
- Dehydration & electrolyte disorders
- Diabetes insipidus (arginine vasopressin deficiency)
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Glomerulonephritis
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
- Hantavirus infection
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hydronephrosis
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- IgA nephropathy
- Kawasaki disease
- Kidney cancer
- Kidney infection
- Kidney stones
- Lead poisoning
- Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
- Metabolic syndrome
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Poisoning & overdose
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Renal artery stenosis
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- SIADH (inappropriate antidiuretic hormone)
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Vesicoureteral reflux
- Wilms tumour (nephroblastoma)
- Yellow fever