Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

Liver tumors get their blood supply from this artery. The rest of the liver gets most of its blood from a different vessel, the portal vein. This means medicine put into the hepatic artery goes ...

THE effect of increased intra-abdominal pressure due to ascites upon portal and systemic hemodynamics ... withdrawal of ascitic fluid upon hepatic-vein wedge pressure, inferior-vena-cava pressure ...

Two blood vessels supply your liver with blood. They are the hepatic artery and the hepatic portal vein. Just before it reaches the liver, the blood in the portal vein comes through the gut (digestive ...

While those efficacy results are impressive, there were safety issues with the procedure, which involves an infusion into the hepatic portal vein, as well as the need to take immunosuppressing ...

hepatic encephalopathy (HE), portal vein thrombosis (PVT). The demographic and clinical data of the subjects involved were collected through the electronic medical record system. Exclusion criteria ...

On angiography, common hepatic and gastroduodenal arteriograms did not show ... Upon further review of imaging, the tumor thrombus was diagnosed extending from the left portal vein into the main ...

Learn about the increased pressure in the portal vein, its causes like cirrhosis, and resulting complications such as ...

The development of hepatic encephalopathy after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt insertion, especially within 30 ...

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...

Researchers provide a conceptual overview of liver vasomics, including the classification of vascular phenotypes in the liver ...