Gastro-epiploic artery

Looks like

An artery along the big curve of the stomach — the right from the gastroduodenal, the left from the splenic; the two join.

What it does

Supply the stomach's greater curvature and the fatty apron (greater omentum).

Keeping it well

The right one is sometimes used as a heart bypass graft; divided in stomach surgery.

Related conditions

• Aortic aneurysm
• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• Hypothermia & frostbite
• Kawasaki disease
• Metabolic syndrome
• Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
• Peripheral artery disease
• Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
• Pre-eclampsia
• Raynaud's phenomenon
• Sepsis
• Shock (circulatory failure)
• Vasculitis (GCA & others)