A woman, aged 59, had an upper abdominal ultrasound study as part of a routine health evaluation. The sonogram showed a cystic lesion (arrow) between the right portal vein and the right hepatic ...

Direct measurement of portal vein pressure is technically difficult and associated with a high risk of complications. Giday et al. now report successful direct measurement of portal vein pressure ...

a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) is a shunt placed inside the liver that carries blood directly from ...

portal hypertensive gastropathy, ascites), extension of the thrombus (intra- and/or extrahepatic, superior mesenteric vein or splenic vein), information on coagulation disorders, imaging methods ...

So the portal vein feeds the normal liver ... so you remove the metastases at the same time you put this pump in, intrahepatic pump, then the pump is under the skin, but you can feel it, and ...

Intrahepatic shunts are often found in larger dog breeds and involve a shunt within ... such as cirrhosis, which increases pressure in the portal vein and causes blood to be rerouted around the liver.