Introduction The common hepatic artery is normally a branch of coeliac trunk. It runs forwards and to the right and divides into a hepatic artery proper and a gastroduodenal artery. The hepatic artery proper terminates by dividing into right and left hepatic arteries and the gastroduodenal artery terminates by dividing into superior pancreaticoduodenal artery and right gastroepiploic artery. Th...

Introduction Coeliac trunk is one of the ventral splanchnic branches of abdominal aorta. It arises from the abdominal aorta opposite the intervertebral disc between T12 and L1 vertebrae. It has a short course of about 1,5 cm, after which it terminates by dividing into three branches; splenic artery, left gastric artery and the common hepatic artery. The common hepatic artery divides into gastro...

The stomach has an arterial supply on both the lesser and greater curves . On the lesser curve, the left gastric artery, a branch of the coeliac axis, forms an anastomotic arcade with the right gastric artery, which arises from the common hepatic artery. The gastroduodenal artery, which is also a branch of the hepatic artery, passes behind the first part of the duodenum. Here it divides into th...

Hepatic arterial vascularization presents great anatomic variability. The vascular configuration described as normal is found in only 55%–75.5% of cases, which means that a large percentage of patients present an anatomic variation. Amongst them, the most frequent variation is the right hepatic artery (RHA), branch of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA). This variation can involve a single rig...

lar complications including thromboses of the portal venous system and the formation of a pseudoaneurysm. Pseudoaneurysms occur in approximately 3.5-10.0% of patients with pancreatitis (1). The arteries most commonly affected by pseudoaneurysms are (in decreasing percent occurrence), the splenic (40%), gastroduodenal (30%), pancreaticoduodenal (20%), gastric (5%), hepatic (2%), and others (supe...

INTRODUCTION Hepatic artery thrombosis following orthotopic liver transplant is one of the most common reasons for early graft failure. Meticulous reconstitution of hepatic artery flow remains essential for good outcomes. Prior surgery, body habitus, hepatic artery inadequacy and anatomic differences can complicate hepatic artery revascularization. CASE PRESENTATION We report a single institu...

A variation artery was observed in a Japanese cadaver. The celiac and superior mesenteric arteries arose from a common trunk (also referred to as the celiacomesenteric trunk), but not from the abdominal aorta, respectively. From the common trunk, the common hepatic artery was distributed in the right part of the liver, and the left hepatic artery arose from the left gastric artery, which also a...

During the past 5 years, 104 angiographic studies were performed in 87 patients (45 children and 42 adults) with 92 transplanted livers for evaluation of possible vascular complications. Seventy percent of the studies were abnormal. Hepatic artery thrombosis was the most common complication (seen in 42% of children studied, compared with only 12% of adults) and was a major complication that fre...

Background: The most common hepatic artery complications after Liver Transplantation (LT) are hepatic artery stenosis, thrombosis and pseudoaneurysm, which can all cause ischemia in the grafted liver. As one of the main complications, the Hepatic Artery Pseudoaneurysm (HAP) is rare with the incidence of about 2%, but its consequence may be most devastating or even fatal. Methods: Here, we prese...