8. Thoracic Angiology Flashcards
What is the anatomical name for the LAD
Anterior interventricular artery
Which major coronary artery (right or left) does more to supply the conductance system of the heart?
What branch of that major artery is so vital?
The left coronary artery
Anterior interventricular artery (LAD)
Which side has the brachiocephalic trunk?
What comes off of the brachiocephalic trunk.?
The right side.
Right common carotid and right subclavian arteries.
What artery does the anterior intercostal artery come off of?
Internal thoracic
What are the two terminal arteries of the internal thoracic artery?
Which one is medial, and which one is lateral?
Musculophrenic (lateral)
Superior epigastric (medial)
What are the three sources of blood to the mammary gland?
Lateral mammary A. (from lateral thoracic)
Medial mammary A. (from internal thoracic)
Lateral cutaneous branch of the posterior intercostal arteries.
What vessel do the right and left bronchial arteries come off of?
The thoracic aorta.
They are the “paired lateral visceral branches”
What three arteries supply the diaphram?
Musculophrenic (internal thoracic)
Pericardiophrenic (internal thoracic)
Superior phrenic (descending thoracic aorta)
What cardiac vein empties directly into the right atrium without passing through the coronary sinus?
Anterior cardiac veins
What vein runs with the posterior interventricular artery?
Middle cardiac vein
What two arteries run with the great cardiac vein?
Circumflex artery
Anterior interventricular artery
What vein can run with the right marginal artery?
Small cardiac vein
