BOSTON — Candidates for liver transplantation who are at risk for portal vein thrombosis can be identified with a simple risk model, allowing clinicians to start them on thromboprophylaxis ...

Portal hypertension is responsible for severe and often lethal complications of cirrhosis. Another important syndrome is hepatic encephalopathy as a consequence of acute and chronic liver failure ...

IN recent years the technic of measuring the pressure in the wedged hepatic vein by means of catheterizing the hepatic vein has been utilized for assessing the level of the portal-vein pressure in ...

Hepatic artery injury during left hepatic trisectionectomy for colorectal liver metastasis treated by portal vein arterialization, International Journal of Surgery Case Reports, 13, (119-124 ...

Research by Takebe et al. demonstrated that vascularised liver organoids derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) ...

The portal vein, or hepatic portal vein, is the main blood vessel of the portal venous system (PVS), which delivers blood to the liver from the stomach, intestines, spleen, gallbladder, and pancreas.

"We characterized how hepatic immune cells responded to LPS in the presence of portal blood HDL and found that it potently prevented liver cell inflammation via neutralization of gut-derived LPS." ...

Since cells migrate in the model, it can also be used to analyse the movement of cancer cells to or from the liver – which could help the study of liver diseases such as liver cirrhosis and cancer.

Hepatic vein thrombosis (HVT) is an obstruction in the hepatic veins of the liver caused by a blood clot. This condition blocks the drainage system of your liver, impeding blood flow back to your ...

The job of the hepatic veins is to move this blood out of your liver. It’s hard work. At any given time, your liver holds about a pint of blood, or about 1/8th of your body’s total blood.