Anatom3DLeft marginal vein
Vena marginalis sinistra · Levá okrajová žíla srdce
Veins
Looks like
A vein running along the sharp lower right edge of the heart.
What it does
Drains the right ventricle wall into the small cardiac vein or straight into the right atrium.
Keeping it well
Seldom relevant alone; disease here follows the coronary arteries, not the veins.
Related conditions
- 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge)
- Aortic stenosis
- Atrial flutter
- Cardiomyopathy (dilated, restrictive, arrhythmogenic)
- Chagas disease
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Congenital heart defects
- Coronary artery disease
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Diphtheria
- Down syndrome (trisomy 21)
- Eating disorders
- Extra heartbeats (ectopics and palpitations)
- Fainting (syncope)
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Heart failure
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Long QT syndrome
- Myocarditis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Panic disorder
- Pericardial effusion & tamponade
- Pericarditis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Sudden cardiac arrest
- Sudden infant death syndrome
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Takotsubo (stress) cardiomyopathy
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Varicose veins
- Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome