vascular supply

Last reviewed 01/2018

The vascular supply to the pericardium can be divided into:

• arterial supply:
• fibrous pericardium and parietal layer of serous pericardium:
• pericardiophrenic arteries
• musculophrenic arteries
• bronchial arterial branches of aorta
• oesophageal arterial branches of aorta
• superior phrenic arterial branches of aorta
• visceral layer of serous pericardium: coronary arterial supply

þþ azygous system

• pericardiophrenic veins