Acute portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a rare disorder defined by the sudden occlusion of the portal vein, which could be partial or complete. Prothrombotic states, inherited or acquired, are thought ...

Hepatic portal venous gas is the presence of gas within the portal vein and its branches. A 4-week-old male infant presented with 1-week history of non-bloody, non-bilious projectile emesis.

The portal vein, or hepatic portal vein, is the main blood vessel of the portal venous system (PVS), which delivers blood to ...

In the first stage, ALPPS involves ligation of a right portal vein branch, leaving only the right hepatic artery to vascularize the liver. Then, after 1 to 2 weeks, the diseased liver is removed. 8 ...

The liver has a rich blood supply from both the hepatic artery and the portal vein; the direct passage of blood from the gastrointestinal tract to the liver via the portal circulation is central in ...

Figure 1 Portogram with Contrast Material Injected in the Inferior Mesenteric Vein Outlining the Communications between the Portal and Hepatic Veins in the Right Lobe of the Liver. Operative ...

The antiphospholipid syndrome associated with hepatic vein thrombosis has usually been of the primary type; that is, the American Rheumatism Association criteria for the diagnosis of systemic ...

In the context of HCC with tumor thrombosis, APSs can occur through several routes: transvasal (vasa vasorum from a hepatic arterial branch into the lumen of the portal vein), transtumoral, ...

Hepatic vein thrombosis should be suspected when ascites, liver enlargement, and upper abdominal pain are simultaneously present, or when intractable ascites contrasts with mildly altered liver ...