portal vein

There it joins with the left branch of the portal vein.

Immediately before reaching the liver, the portal vein divides into right and left.

An important example of such a condition is elevated blood pressure in the hepatic portal vein.

Following this, carbon dioxide is injected to locate the portal vein.

Conditions involving the hepatic portal vein cause considerable illness and death.

Successful cannulation of the portal vein was preceded by a characteristic 'give'.

In four patients cannulation of the portal vein was impossible for anatomical reasons.

Unlike most veins, the hepatic portal vein does not drain into the heart.

It is carried through the portal vein into the liver before it reaches the rest of the body.

One method is to decrease the portal vein pressure, especially useful in treating cirrhosis.

Since this is an important function in mammals, damage to the hepatic portal vein can be dangerous.

It was partly excised and examined, there's an incision just along the portal vein.

The most time consuming part was related to transjugular cannulation of the portal vein.

The cause of these complications is high pressure in blood vessels of the liver called portal veins.

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Portal veins are a slight exception to this.

Hydrogen is produced during the fermentation process and dissolves into the blood of the portal vein.

It was a lucky shot (or unlucky, depending on your point of view, I guess), hitting the portal vein and killing her.

The vascular effluent was collected in one minute fractions through the portal vein.

Blood glucose from the portal vein enters liver cells (hepatocytes).

After absorption it enters the hepatic portal vein and is directed toward the liver.

Pressure measurements in the portal vein and inferior vena cava are often done.

For this reason, the hepatic portal vein is occasionally called the splenic-mesenteric confluence.

Other theories about the origin of the bacteria, such as through the portal vein or transmigration from the colon, are considered less likely.

The altered cells were then reintroduced into the woman's liver through the portal vein that feeds the organ.