Hepatic veins are blood vessels that return low-oxygen blood from your liver back to the heart. The veins are key players in the supply chain that moves the blood that delivers nutrients and oxygen to ...

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 ...

THE term "hepatic coma" is used in this report to A refer to patients with diseases of the liver or portal circulation who manifest varying degrees of encephalopathy. The term itself is confusing ...

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 ...

If your doctor tells you that have a hepatic adenoma, it means you have a liver tumor that is "benign." That's another way of saying that it isn't cancer. It won't spread to other parts of your body.

Phase II Randomized Trial of Transoral Surgery and Low-Dose Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy in Resectable p16+ Locally Advanced Oropharynx Cancer: An ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group Trial ...

Isocaloric substitution of alcohol for carbohydrate in young nonalcoholic volunteers rapidly led to hepatic fat accumulation and ultrastructural changes, both on a standard diet and on a diet high in ...

Serum zinc is often deficient in patients with liver cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy (HE), according to a study published online in the September issue of the Journal of Family Medicine and ...