Explore how the liver functions, common liver conditions, and tips to maintain liver health through lifestyle changes like ...

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.

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 ...

Other hepatic cells types, particularly fibroblasts located in the walls of small hepatic vessels, could acquire myofibroblast-like features following liver injury and have a phenotype similar to ...

Chemotherapy uses anti cancer (cytotoxic) drugs to destroy cancer cells. Chemoembolisation is a treatment directly into the liver. You have chemotherapy into the blood vessel that feeds the tumour.