Anatom3DIleal branch of inferior branch of ileocolic artery
Ramus ilealis arteriae ileocolicae · Kyčelníková větev dolní větve ileokolické tepny
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A branch of the ileocolic artery running back along the last part of the small bowel.
What it does
Supplies the terminal ileum and joins the last ileal arteries.
Keeping it well
Rarely a problem alone; divided in right hemicolectomy.
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)