What is Impaired Blood Flow Into The Liver?

Impaired Blood Flow Into The Liver
Contrast-enhanced CT scans after hemostatic treatment at postoperative day 18. (A) Thrombi were found from the superior mesenteric vein to the portal vein (arrow); (B) The right and left intra-hepatic portal branches were contrast-enhanced, indicating preserved blood flow (arrows). Postoperative portal vein thrombosis and gastric hemorrhage associated with late-onset hemorrhage from the common hepatic artery after pancreaticoduodenectomy: Watanobe I, Ito Y, Akimoto E, Sekine Y, Haruyama Y, Amemiya K, Miyano S, Kosaka T, Machida M, Kitabatake T, Kojima K - Korean journal of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery (2016). Not altered. CC.

Impaired blood flow into the liver is the inadequate blood flow towards the liver.

Examples of impaired blood flow into the liver include: 

  • Hepatic artery compromise
  • Portal vein obstruction
  • Portal vein thrombosis