[The bronchial arteries and their anastomoses with the coronary arteries].
We studied bronchial arteries (BA) and their anastomoses with coronary arteries in 53 adult subjects (30 female and 23 male, mean age 82) and one 2 month old child. Each subject had 1 to 4 BAs, born from an area on the anterior side of the descending aorta measuring less than 2 cm in diameter in 62 percent of the cases and never exceeding 4 cm in the other cases. In 6 cases BAs vascularize the left auricle; more than half of all cases had an anastomose with the coronary arteries: 11 with the right coronary artery and 9 with the left one. These anastomoses preserve the vascularization of the carina after a cardio-pulmonary transplantation. The may have a function of vascular supply in some coronarian patients and the study of associated coronary pathology gives confirmation of it in one fourth of the cases.
Dupont
P
P
Service de Chirurgie Thoracique, Hôpital Laennec, Paris.
Riquet
M
M
Briere
J
J
Weber
S
S
Debesse
B
B
Hidden
G
G
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D001981:Bronchial Arteries / Q000601:surgery*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D016041:Heart-Lung Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D016040:Lung Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
Les artères bronchiques et leurs anastomoses avec les coronaires.