Three rare anatomical variations were found during study on hepatic arterial vascularisation in multidetector computed tomography angiography. In the first described variation the common hepatic artery (CHA) arises from the celiac trunk (CTr) and supplies right hepatic lobe. The left lobe of the liver is supplied by aberrant left hepatic artery originating as a common trunk with the left gastri...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of the intraoperative use of terlipressin on splanchnic hemodynamics and postoperative renal function in patients undergoing liver transplantation. DESIGN Open-label, prospective, randomized study. SETTING Single-center study. PATIENTS Thirty patients who underwent elective, living-donor liver transplantation with portal pressure >20 mm Hg. INTERVENTIONS ...

Knowledge of the variant vascular anatomy of the subhepatic region is important for hepatobiliary surgeons in limiting operative complications due to unexpected bleeding. The pattern of arterial blood supply of 102 gallbladders was studied by gross dissection. The cystic artery originated from the right hepatic artery in 92.2% of cases. The rest were aberrant and originated from the proper hepa...

Decidual NK (dNK) cells, a distinct type of NK cell, are thought to regulate uterine spiral artery remodeling, a process that allows for increased blood delivery to the fetal-placental unit. Impairment of uterine spiral artery remodeling is associated with decreased placental perfusion, increased uterine artery resistance, and obstetric complications such as preeclampsia and intrauterine growth...

A 64-year-old female patient with adenocarcinoma of the head of the pancreas with encasement of the common hepatic artery and portal vein stenosis was reexplored after six cycles of gemcitabine (1000 mg/m(2)). Prior to surgery, the patient underwent balloon dilation and stenting of the portal vein in addition to successful coil embolisation of the common hepatic artery, proper hepatic artery, a...

Vascular anomalies are frequently encountered in abdomen. But they are usually asymptomatic and diagnosed accidently during angiography or surgery leading into severe complications. Thus knowledge of angioarchitecture in abdomen, whether normal or variant, is considered prerequisite for successful, uncomplicated surgeries and interventional radiology. This case report describes one of such vary...

A case of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with hepatic artery/hepatic vein fistula (HAHVF) is presented in this report. The patients developed a disease of a large mass with hepatic artery/hepatic vein fistula demonstrated by computed tomography (CT) scans as well as hepatic artery angiography, which had missed the chance for resection or liver transplantation. Little improvement was made after ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the diagnostic power of the umbilical venous-arterial index (VAI) for the prediction of poor fetal outcome. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This was a retrospective, cross-sectional clinical study in which normalized umbilical vein blood volume flow rate (nUV) (mL/min/kg estimated body weight), umbilical artery pulsatility index (UAPI), the newly developed VAI (nUV/UAPI), and the ute...