This question is pertaining to Anatomy and Physiology

Question

1) Your patient presents with severe abdominal pain. Your teams orders a CT scan and discovers a large blood clot lodged in the celiac trunk. What organs could this blood clot potentially affect? Why do you think the clot is causing abdominal pain?

Answer 1

The celiac trunk is the second branch of the abdominal aorta. It supplies the stomach, spleen, liver, gall bladder, esophagus, pancreas and duodenum. The pain associated with obstruction of any of these major arteries is thought to be due to organ ischemia, or the lack of oxygen-rich blood to these organs.