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Right gastroepiploic artery

Right gastroepiploic artery is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Right gastroepiploic artery rather than just read about it. In short: The right gastroepiploic artery (or right gastro-omental artery) is one of the two terminal branches of the gastroduodenal artery. It runs from right to left along the greater curvature of the stomach, between the layers of the greater omentum, anastomosing with the left gastroepiploic artery, a branch of the splenic artery.

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The right gastroepiploic artery (or right gastro-omental artery) is one of the two terminal branches of the gastroduodenal artery. It runs from right to left along the greater curvature of the stomach, between the layers of the greater omentum, anastomosing with the left gastroepiploic artery, a branch of the splenic artery.

Except at the pylorus where it is in contact with the stomach, it lies about a finger's breadth from the greater curvature.

Branches This vessel gives off numerous branches:

"gastric branches": ascend to supply both surfaces of the stomach. "omental branches": descend to supply the greater omentum and anastomose with branches of the middle colic.

Use in coronary artery surgery The right gastroepiploic artery was first used as a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) in 1984 by John Pym and colleagues at Queen's University. It has become an accepted alternative conduit, and is particularly useful in patients who do not have suitable saphenous veins to harvest for grafts. The right gastroepiploic artery is typically used as a graft to coronary arteries on the posterior wall of the heart such as the right coronary artery and the posterior descending branch.

References This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 604 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

External links Anatomy figure: 38:01-14 at Human Anatomy Online, SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Branches of the celiac trunk." Anatomy photo:38:02-0101 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Stomach, Spleen and Liver: The Right and Left Gastroepiploic Artery" celiactrunk at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)

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In the classroom: Right gastroepiploic artery is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Arteries of the abdomen, Stomach, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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