Anatom3DRight superior epigastric artery
Arteria epigastrica superior dextra · Pravá horní epigastrická tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
The continuation of the internal thoracic artery into the belly wall, running down behind the rectus (six-pack) muscle.
What it does
Supplies the upper belly wall and joins the inferior epigastric artery from below.
Keeping it well
Can bleed into the rectus sheath after injections or violent coughing; a painful lump in the belly wall needs a check.
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)