Anatom3DLeft lateral basal segmental artery
Arteria segmentalis basalis lateralis sinistra · Levá laterální bazální segmentová tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A branch of the lower-lobe pulmonary artery supplying the outer base of the lung, next to the airway of the same name.
What it does
Carries blood to the lateral basal segment of the lower lobe for oxygen pick-up.
Keeping it well
Segmental arteries are a common place for clots to lodge; surgeons tie them one by one when removing a segment.
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)