Anatom3DSecond posterior intercostal artery
Arteria intercostalis posterior secunda · Druhá zadní mezižeberní tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
An artery running along the second rib space, usually from the superior intercostal artery.
What it does
Supplies the second rib space muscles, skin and ribs.
Keeping it well
Rarely a problem; injury with rib fractures can bleed into the chest.
Related conditions
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pleural effusion
- Pneumothorax
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)