Additional branches off of the abdominal aorta supply the remaining organs and structures of the abdomen, including the intestines, kidneys, reproductive organs, and muscles of the region.
In this lesson, you will learn about the descending aorta, which begins at the aortic arch and is divided into two sections, the thoracic and the abdominal aorta.
Shortly after the end of the Second World War he had begun to suffer from an abdominal aortic aneurysm, an enlargement of the abdominal aorta, the largest artery in the abdomen.
To that end they picked a group of rabbits and implanted into their abdominal aortas stents which had no coating, stents coated only in polydopamine, and stents which had also had platelet membranes attached to them.