Innovative therapies and surgical techniques have the potential to transform liver cancer care. People with cirrhosis—a ...

The portal vein, or hepatic portal vein, is the main blood vessel of the portal venous system (PVS), which delivers blood to ...

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 ...

The risk of developing liver cancer is increased in people who have cirrhosis, a disease in which healthy liver tissue is ...

Researchers describe successful tumor removal through the use of immunotherapy and targeted radiation therapy (TARE), in a patient previously considered ineligible for the procedure.

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is caused by obstruction of hepatic venous outflow at any level from the small hepatic veins to the junction of the inferior vena cava (IVC) with the right atrium, 1 and occurs in 1/100,000 of the ...

HVPG was determined before and after treatment by insertion of a catheter into the main right hepatic vein to measure wedged and free hepatic vein pressures. As Bosch comments, “it is important ...

Hepatic vein thrombosis is caused by one or several thrombogenic conditions, of which myeloproliferative disorders are the most frequent. Thrombosis and its fibrous sequelae can affect the veins ...

The risk of developing liver cancer is increased in people who have cirrhosis, a disease in which healthy liver tissue is ...