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Is the liver affected by abnormal hepatopedal flow in the portal vein?
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What is the medical term meaning abnormal blood vessel creating abnormal blood flow around the liver?
The answer is Protosystemis ShuntOrdinarily the blood coming away from the digestive tract is kept in a venous network (the "portal" system) separated from from blood that is returning directly to the heart via the vena cava (the "systemic" flow). This portal blood must first be cleaned and detoxified by the liver before merging with systemic venous blood.If there is abnormal flow which permits the "dirty" digestive blood tobypass the liver, it is called a Porto-Systemic "shunt".
What organ has a portal system?
The liver has a portal system.
What organ affects the cirrhosis?
The liver is affected by cirrhosis but as the liver fails other organs will follow suit and death will eventually occur.
Where does blood flow to after the small intestine?
the bllod from small intestine drains into portal vein and which gives that blood to liver
What type of cirrhosis is also known as portal cirrhosis?
There is nothing as portal cirrhosis. There is a condition called as portal hypertension. In cirrhosis of liver you have signs of portal hypertension as well as of liver failure present in a given patient.
What is hepatopetal flow in the main portal vein of liver?
normal blood flow in portal vein and patent portal vein is a sign of the normal physiological condition of liver blood web and clearness of portal venous way
Receives blood via the hepatic portal system?
THE LIVER
What is the major parts of portal system?
liver
What is In the center of a liver lobule?
Portal vein
What organs blood flow directly to portal vein?
The hepatic portal vein carries blood (and absorbed nutrients) from the small intestine to the liver.
What rich material processed by the liver would the blood in the hepatic portal vein contain?
Nutrients are the rich material carried by the hepatic portal vein to the liver and then to the heart. The liver receives about seventy-five percent of its blood through the hepatic portal vein.
Vessel that transports nutrients to the liver?
An artery carries blood to the liver, not a vein. The hepatic artery.Maybe you meant to ask which vein receives nutrient-rich blood from the small intestine. That would be the superior mesenteric vein. But it doesn't go to the liver.
