Anatom3DIleocolic artery
Arteria ileocolica · Ileokolická tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
The last branch of the superior mesenteric artery, running down to where the small bowel joins the colon.
What it does
Supplies the end of the ileum, caecum, appendix and start of the colon.
Keeping it well
Its lymph nodes are removed in right-sided bowel cancer surgery.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Acute mesenteric ischaemia (gut stroke)
- Aortic aneurysm
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)