The underlying conditions favoring or precipitating hepatic vein or inferior vena cava thrombosis must be recognized and treated. This essential part of therapy is beyond the scope of this review.

A study reveals that the liver acts as a bidirectional hub, exchanging gut-microbiome-derived metabolic products with the heart. A research team supported by FAPESP and working at Harvard University i ...

Increase in hepatic arterial flow in response to reduced portal flow (hepatic arterial buffer response) has been demonstrated experimentally and surgically. We provide pathologic evidence for hepatic ...

A study conducted at Harvard University identified a group of metabolites that travel from the intestine to the liver and ...

Estimation of hepatic blood flow is of importance in studies of portal hypertension since factors that alter blood flow generally tend to affect intrasinusoidal pressure. A variety of substances have ...

Arun B. Jesudian, MD: We’ve mentioned GI [gastrointestinal] bleeding, we’ve mentioned hypovolemia, dehydration. Elliot, before you alluded to infections [as] a problem in this population. How do those ...

A 10-year-old Swedish girl has had a potentially life-threatening condition alleviated by receiving a vein grown from her own stem cells. Her condition, called extrahepatic portal vein obstruction, ...

Phase III Randomized Trial of FOLFIRI Versus FOLFOX4 in the Treatment of Advanced Colorectal Cancer: A Multicenter Study of the Gruppo Oncologico Dell’Italia Meridionale Fifty-one patients undergoing ...

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 ...

CATHETERIZATION of the hepatic vein in man, which was first described in 1944, 1 has provided a new approach to a study of the liver for both the clinician and the research worker. This technic has ...