This is when a thrombotic embolus lodges above the external iliac artery ( common iliac artery ), blocking the external and internal iliac arteries and effectively shutting off all blood supply to the hind leg.
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The inferior gluteal artery, from a branch of the internal iliac artery, pass behind the sciatic nerve and the sacrospinous ligament and is left uncovered in a small opening above the top of the sacrospinous ligament.
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Recent research has identified that the pressure applied by the NASG serves to significantly increase the resistive index of the internal iliac artery ( which is responsible for supplying the majority of blood �ow to the uterus via the uterine arteries ).
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Some of the blood moves from the aorta through the internal iliac arteries to the umbilical arteries, and re-enters the placenta, where carbon dioxide and other waste products from the fetus are taken up and enter the woman's circulation.
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These pierce the muscular coat of the bowel and run downward, as straight vessels, placed at regular intervals from each other in the wall of the gut between its muscular and mucous coats, to the level of the internal anal sphincter; here they form a series of loops around the lower end of the rectum, and communicate with the middle rectal artery ( from the internal iliac artery ) and with the inferior rectal artery ( from the internal pudendal artery ).
