Anatom3DApical part of right posterior segmental artery
Pars apicalis arteriae segmentalis posterioris dextrae · Apikální část pravé zadní segmentové tepny
Heart & arteries
Looks like
The upper branch of the posterior segmental artery, reaching up toward the lung apex.
What it does
Brings blood to the upper part of the posterior segment.
Keeping it well
Small; seen on CT pulmonary angiography and during lung surgery.
Related conditions
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Altitude sickness
- Asbestosis and asbestos-related disease
- Aspergillosis
- Asthma
- Breathing pattern disorder
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchiolitis & RSV
- COPD
- COVID-19
- Cystic fibrosis
- Drowning
- Echinococcosis (hydatid disease)
- Endemic fungal infections (histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis)
- Hantavirus infection
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Influenza
- Kawasaki disease
- Legionnaires' disease
- Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
- Long COVID (post-viral syndrome)
- Lung abscess
- Lung cancer
- Measles
- Mesothelioma
- Metabolic syndrome
- Molar pregnancy and gestational trophoblastic disease
- Neonatal sepsis
- Neuroendocrine tumours (carcinoid)
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pleural effusion
- Pleurisy
- Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP)
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Pre-eclampsia
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary oedema
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn
- Sarcoidosis
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- SIADH (inappropriate antidiuretic hormone)
- Silicosis and coal workers' pneumoconiosis
- Sudden infant death syndrome
- Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
- Tuberculosis
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Whooping cough