carry blood toward the heart. The portal vein and its contributing veins are different because they carry blood to the liver ...

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 ...

[1] Veno-occlusive disease of the liver will not be considered in this review, but is discussed in the article by DeLeve and colleagues elsewhere in this issue. Hepatic vein thrombosis associated ...