Anatom3DLeft dorsal carpal branch of ulnar artery
Ramus carpalis dorsalis arteriae ulnaris sinistrae · Dorzální karpální větev levé loketní tepny
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A small branch leaving the ulnar artery above the wrist and winding round to the back of the wrist.
What it does
Joins the radial side to complete the dorsal carpal arch over the wrist bones.
Keeping it well
Rarely a problem; a backup route that keeps the back of the hand supplied if one forearm artery is cut.
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)