The portal vein is responsible for approximately 70% of blood supply to the liver. Decrease in portal flow leads to compensatory increase in hepatic arterial flow, which is termed hepatic arterial ...

The other is the portal vein, which delivers blood from your stomach, intestines, and the rest of your digestive system. What Hepatic Veins Do Your blood supplies oxygen and nutrients to all the ...

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 ...

Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a blood clot of the portal vein, also known as the hepatic portal vein. A PVT blocks the blood flow from the intestines to the liver. Although it is treatable, PVT ...

Prevention of development of thrombosis in the still patent hepatic veins, inferior vena cava, portal vein, as well as veins in other territories is of utmost importance.

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 ...

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.

From the Hepatic-Metabolic Research Unit, Jersey City Medical Center, and the Department of Medicine, Seton Hall College of Medicine, Jersey City, and the Cardiopulmonary Laboratory, Department of ...

And then less common ones, portal vein thrombosis and/or the development of hepatocellular carcinoma, ... the incoming blood flow to the liver to the hepatic vein, ...

Congenital hepatic fibrosis can lead to fibrosis in the portal tracts of the liver. The portal tracts are structures that contain important vessels such as the portal veins, which carry blood from ...