Right coronary artery

Right coronary artery
Right coronary artery
	Blood supply of the heart, with the right coronary artery labelled.
Details
Location	Heart
Supplies	Right atrium, right ventricle, 25-35% of left ventricle
Identifiers
Latin	arteria coronaria dextra
Acronym(s)	RCA
TA98	A12.2.03.101
TA2	4131
FMA	50039
	Anatomical terminology

In the blood supply of the heart, the right coronary artery (RCA) is an artery originating above the right cusp of the aortic valve, at the right aortic sinus in the heart.^[1]^[2] It travels down the right coronary sulcus, towards the crux of the heart.^[1]^[3] It gives off many branches, including the sinoatrial nodal artery, right marginal artery, posterior interventricular artery, conus artery, ^[4] and atrioventricular nodal branch.^{[citation needed]} It contributes the right side of the heart, and parts of the interventricular septum.^[2]^[5]

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^ Antonopoulos, Alexios S.; Siasos, Gerasimos; Antoniades, Charalambos; Tousoulis, Dimitris (2018-01-01), Tousoulis, Dimitris (ed.), "Chapter 2.1 - Functional Anatomy", Coronary Artery Disease, Academic Press, pp. 121–126, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-811908-2.00008-8, ISBN 978-0-12-811908-2, retrieved 2020-11-20
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