Anatom3DAscending branch of inferior branch of ileocolic artery
Ramus colicus ascendens arteriae ileocolicae · Vzestupná větev dolní větve ileokolické tepny
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A branch of the ileocolic artery running up along the start of the ascending colon.
What it does
Supplies the start of the ascending colon and joins the right colic artery.
Keeping it well
Part of the marginal arcade; 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)