Anatom3DPosterior inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery
Arteria pancreaticoduodenalis inferior posterior · Zadní dolní slinivkovo-dvanácterníková tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
The back branch of the inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery, running up behind the pancreas head.
What it does
Supplies the back of the pancreas head and duodenum and joins the posterior superior artery.
Keeping it well
Removed in Whipple surgery; can form aneurysms when the coeliac trunk is narrowed.
Related conditions
- Acute mesenteric ischaemia (gut stroke)
- 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)