In acute liver failure secondary to iatrogenic lesions caused during cholecystectomy, emergency liver transplantation is a last-resort therapeutic option due to the transcendence of the procedure. We present the case report of a patient with damage to the hepatic artery and portal thrombosis that occurred during open cholecystectomy. The patient is a 61-year-old woman with a medical history of ...

BACKGROUND Isolated hepatic artery thrombosis is an extremely rare condition with only a few cases reported in the literature. CASE REPORT A 62-year-old woman presented with a 5-day history of right upper quadrant abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting. Physical examination revealed right upper quadrant tenderness. Her initial laboratory work was significant for elevated aspartate...

The purpose of this study was to define parameters which could be predictive of hepatic artery thrombosis, which continues to be a major complicating factor in pediatric liver transplantation. The hepatic blood flow of 14 pediatric liver patients (15 grafts) who weighed less than 15 kg was measured electromagnetically during orthotopic liver transplantation. The results of blood flow determinat...

Hepatic artery thrombosis after liver transplantation is a devastating event requiring emergency retransplantation in most patients. Early clinical signs are often nonspecific. Before duplex sonography (combined real-time and pulsed Doppler) capability was acquired in October 1984, 76% of all transplants in this institution referred for angiography with a clinical suspicion of hepatic artery th...

We present a case of pancreatitis with secondary pseudoaneurysm formation in a branch of the hepatic artery, which fistulated into the common bile duct following endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. This aneurysm manifested itself clinically with recurrent haematemesis, and was treated by embolisation of the anterior and posterior branches of the right hepatic artery.

Right hepatic artery (RHA) is a branch of the common artery; however, there are cases documented in literature showing anatomical variations. Accessory RHA an incidental finding during hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. This should be identified, carefully separated, preserved these surgeries. We encounter variation while doing Whipple’s procedure 61-year-old patient diagnosed with carcinoma...

The pine marten (Martes martes) is a medium sized carnivore rarely found in Iran. The aim of this study was to describe species-specific characteristics of the celiac artery in pine marten. In pine marten examined in this study, it was observed that the celiac artery originated from the ventral aspect of abdominal aorta. The celiac artery was divided into two branches. A thick branch was the co...

Introduction The right hepatic artery generally arises from the common hepatic artery, a branch of the coeliac trunk, to supply the right lobe of the liver. Most commonly, the hepatic artery has its origin in the coeliac trunk. It then passes anterolaterally to the first part of the duodenum and bifurcates into the hepatic artery proper and gastroduodenal artery. After passing anterior to the p...

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...

We evaluated the efficacy of reconstruction of the hepatic artery for intraoperative or postoperative thrombosis in orthotopic liver transplantation. Of 37 grafts with artery thrombosis, 13 (35.1%, 6 intraoperative and 7 postoperative) underwent reconstruction of the hepatic artery. The arterial flow was reestablished and maintained in 5 (38.5%) of the 13. Recurrent thrombosis in the other 8 gr...