Anatom3DAcromial branch of left thoraco-acromial artery
Ramus acromialis arteriae thoracoacromialis sinistrae · Nadpažková větev levé hrudonadpažkové tepny
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A branch of the thoraco-acromial artery running out to the tip of the shoulder (acromion).
What it does
Supplies the shoulder tip, the deltoid and joins a network of arteries around the acromion.
Keeping it well
Can bleed in shoulder surgery near the acromion.
Related conditions
- 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)
- Takayasu arteritis
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)