Anatom3DInferior segmental branch of renal artery
Arteria segmenti inferioris renis · Dolní segmentová tepna ledviny
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A segmental artery to the lower pole of the kidney.
What it does
Supplies the lower tip of the kidney.
Keeping it well
Sometimes arises directly from the aorta and can cross and pinch the ureter.
Related conditions
- Acute kidney injury
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Chronic kidney disease
- Dehydration & electrolyte disorders
- Diabetes insipidus (arginine vasopressin deficiency)
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Glomerulonephritis
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
- Hantavirus infection
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hydronephrosis
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- IgA nephropathy
- Kawasaki disease
- Kidney cancer
- Kidney infection
- Kidney stones
- Lead poisoning
- Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
- Metabolic syndrome
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Poisoning & overdose
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Renal artery stenosis
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- SIADH (inappropriate antidiuretic hormone)
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Vesicoureteral reflux
- Wilms tumour (nephroblastoma)
- Yellow fever