right gastroepiploic artery

The right gastroepiploic artery arises when the gastroduodenal artery bifurcates.

Instead, that region is supplied by the right gastroepiploic artery, a branch of the gastroduodenal artery.

The greater curvature is supplied by the right gastroepiploic artery inferiorly and the left gastroepiploic artery superiorly.

The right gastro-omental artery (or right gastroepiploic artery) is one of the two terminal branches of the gastroduodenal artery.

It terminates in a bifurcation when it splits into the right gastroepiploic artery and the anterior superior pancreaticoduodenal artery (superior pancreaticoduodenal artery).

The right gastroepiploic artery was first used as a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) in 1984 by Dr. John Pym and colleagues at Queen's University.

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.

A considerable plexus accompanies the gastroduodenal artery and is continued as the inferior gastric plexus on the right gastroepiploic artery along the greater curvature of the stomach, where it unites with offshoots from the lienal plexus.