Portal hypertension is an abnormal increase in blood pressure defined clinically as hepatic venous pressure gradient 5 mmHg in the hepatic portal vein system. Causes of portal hypertension ...

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 ...

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 ...

Running from the top of the foot (dorsum) and up the inner sides of the leg, the great saphenous vein is the body’s longest vein. The vein’s primary task is to drain deoxygenated blood from the foot, ...

With increasing interest in developing antifibrotic therapies, there is a need for cell lines that preserve the in vivo phenotype of human HSCs to elucidate pathways of human hepatic fibrosis. We ...

Surprisingly well, actually. WATCH Philly's live portal to cities in Ireland, Lithuania and Poland: A circular video portal, part of a multicity art installation that connects Philadelphia to (at ...

The PlayStation Portal remote player (PS Portal)– Sony’s first dedicated remote play device– has got a new system software update, Hiromi Wakai, VP of Product Management, Sony Interactive ...

On the right side, the right adrenal and right gonadal veins enter directly into the IVC without merging into the right renal vein first. This makes the IVC almost symmetrical. Other veins that enter ...

Kidney cancers are unique for a few reasons. One reason is that renal cell carcinoma can grow directly into the veins that drain the kidney and run up toward the heart. This growth of cancer into the ...

The lumen is the hollow opening or the space inside the blood vessel. Artery Vein Capillary Function Carry blood away from the heart (usually oxygenated blood, except for the pulmonary artery ...

Three years after Shannon White mysteriously disappeared, a cadaver dog will soon scour a previously unchecked area outside Kamloops for any sign of her. Members of the Search, Rescue and ...