Posterior cecal artery

Looks like

A small branch of the ileocolic artery to the back of the caecum.

What it does

Supplies the back wall of the caecum and sometimes gives the appendix artery.

Keeping it well

Rarely a problem; divided in right-sided bowel surgery.

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)