Right gastroepiploic artery

Right gastroepiploic artery
The celiac artery and its branches; the liver has been raised, and the lesser omentum and anterior layer of the greater omentum removed. (Right gastroepiploic artery visible at lower left.)
Right and left gastroomental is at #4.
Details
Source	Gastroduodenal artery
Vein	Right gastroepiploic vein
Identifiers
Latin	Arteria gastro-omentalis dextra, arteria gastroepiploica dextra
Dorlands /Elsevier	a_61/12154368
TA	A12.2.12.022
FMA	14781
Anatomical terminology []

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.

This vessel gives off numerous branches:

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. 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.

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