A patient has calcification in the left gastric artery What

A patient has calcification in the left gastric artery. What organs will have impaired blood flow?

Solution

Left gastric artery is the smallest branch of celiac trunk. It ascends to the cardioesophageal junction and sends esophageal branches upwards to abdominal part of the esophageal. The left gastric artery itself turns to the right and descend along the lesser curvature of the stomach in lesser omentum.it supplies both surfaces of the stomach in this area and anastamosis with the right gastric artery. Hence, any calcification in left gastric artery leads to impaired blood flow to abdominal part of esophagus and both surfaces of the stomach in the lesser omentum.