Anatom3DRight posterior ulnar recurrent artery
Ramus posterior arteriae recurrentis ulnaris dextrae · Pravá zadní zpětná loketní tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A branch of the ulnar artery that climbs behind the inner elbow bump, alongside the ulnar nerve.
What it does
Joins the superior ulnar collateral artery around the elbow and helps feed the ulnar nerve.
Keeping it well
Relevant in ulnar nerve surgery at the elbow; its connections protect the forearm's supply after arterial injury.
Related conditions
- Compartment syndrome
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Lymphangitis
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)