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 ...

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 ...

The correct answer is none of the above. The first image is a pulsed-wave Doppler of the hepatic vein (Figure 1). This image demonstrates systolic flow reversal in the hepatic vein, which ...

Doppler ultrasonography is the first imaging technique to be used for portal vein thrombosis (PVT) diagnosis; it is well-tolerated, accurate and a negative examination performed by a trained operator ...

APPLICATION of the technics of hepatic-vein catheterization and percutaneous splenic puncture, with appropriate blood-flow and pressure measurements and radiologic visualization of the portal bed, has ...

THE liver acts as a selective barrier between the gastrointestinal tract and the systemic circulation, metabolizing, detoxifying and elaborating for further physiologic disposition various substances ...