Set of oesophageal branches of thoracic aorta

Looks like

Several small arteries leaving the front of the chest aorta and entering the gullet.

What it does

Supply the middle part of the gullet.

Keeping it well

A torn gullet or gullet surgery can bleed from them; rarely a problem otherwise.

Related conditions

• 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)