Anatom3DAnterior cardiac venous tree
Venae ventriculi dextri anteriores · Přední srdeční žíly
Veins
Looks like
Several small veins on the front of the right ventricle, crossing the groove between the right atrium and ventricle.
What it does
Drain the front of the right ventricle directly into the right atrium, bypassing the coronary sinus.
Keeping it well
Rarely a clinical issue; they are cut and sealed in some heart operations.
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