Anatom3DAntero-medial basal segmental artery
Arteria segmentalis basalis anteromedialis · Anteromediální bazální segmentová tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A branch of the left lower-lobe pulmonary artery for the front-inner part of the lung base; on the left one vessel serves both.
What it does
Carries blood to the anteromedial basal segment of the left lower lobe.
Keeping it well
Seen on CT pulmonary angiography; clots and segment resections involve it.
Its parts
Related conditions
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)