How To Differentiate Benign From Malignant Bile Duct Strictures? Sep 13, 2008
Furthermore, vascular involvement was identified on contrast enhanced CT as vascular stenosis or occlusion of the portal vein and/or the hepatic artery. In 21 patients, the portal vein and/or branches of the hepatic artery were involved in the tumor process, and all these patients were finally diagnosed to have a malignant lesion. (Science Daily)
Vasopressin Caution In Septic Shock, Animal Study Suggests Dec 14, 2007
Flow was unchanged in the hepatic artery and increased in the celiac trunk, but was unchanged in the liver. Microcirculatory blood flow in the pancreas also fell considerably and, to a lesser extent, in the kidney. (Science Daily)
Tiny Radioactive Spheres Effectively Treat Cancer That Has Spread To The Liver Oct 31, 2007
An interventional radiologist uses a catheter to infuse the microspheres directly into the hepatic artery, which supplies all the blood to the liver. There the beads deliver radiation directly to tumors for about 11 days. (Science Daily)
New procedure developed to help beat liver cancer Sep 29, 2007
The procedure uses catheters threaded through blood vessels in the thighs and neck, one of which delivers the drug into the hepatic artery, which supplies the liver while the inferior vena cava, which normally drains the liver, is blocked by a pair of balloons. To maintain circulation through the liver, a tube runs through one of these balloons. (Xinhuanet, China)
Safer Liver Surgery and Partial Liver Transplantation Apr 12, 2007
4 The blood supply of the liver is carried through two major vessels, the hepatic artery and the portal vein. The portal vein carries a large volume of venous blood to the liver. (New England Journal of Medicine)
Killing cancer from the inside out Apr 4, 2007
Doses are injected into a catheter inserted into the liver's hepatic artery during a two-hour procedure. The study will track the virus to see if it ventures beyond the liver. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
