Your right coronary artery sends blood to the right side of your heart and also helps regulate your heartbeat. Branches from this artery also send blood to the middle of your heart.

The right coronary artery (RCA) arises further caudal, at the right aortic sinus. The RCA runs through the atrioventricular groove, encircling the tricuspid orifice, reciprocal to the LCX (Figure 4).

The left coronary artery was normal in size, and the intima of the left descending and circumflex branches showed a few atheromatous plaques. The right coronary artery was markedly hypoplastic.

The heart muscle needs oxygen-rich blood to do its job. The vessels that feed the heart are called coronary arteries (shown in the diagram right) and they branch off from the body’s main artery, the ...

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Two major coronary arteries branch off from the aorta near the point where the aorta and the left ventricle meet: Right coronary artery supplies the right atrium and right ventricle with blood. It ...

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