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If a cardiologist inserts a catheter into a patients right femoral artery, which arteries will the tube have to pass through in order to reach the entrance to the coronary artery?
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The artery from the heart is known as aorta and it reaches and divides into arch of aorta and its three brances.
The descending aorta is known as thoracic aorta, abdominal aorta based on the location.The abdominal aorta further divides into right and left common iliac artery.
The common iliac artery divides into external iliac and internal iliac artery.The external iliac artery continue as the femoral artery.
So the tube passes from femoral artery to external iliac artery to common iliac artery to abdominal aorta to thoracic aorta to arch of aorta to cornory aryery of the heart.
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diagram of arterial system
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Experience: M.B.B.S. , over 7 years of experience in the field of Medical practice