Anatom3DPosterior vein of left ventricle
Vena ventriculi sinistri posterior · Zadní žíla levé komory
Veins
Looks like
A vein on the back and lower surface of the left ventricle.
What it does
Drains the back wall of the left ventricle into the coronary sinus.
Keeping it well
A common target for the left-ventricle lead of a biventricular pacemaker.
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