Background: Hepatic artery thrombosis is a devastating complication after orthotopic liver transplantation often requiring revascularization or re-transplantation. It is associated with ...

Hepatic artery thrombosis (HAT) is the most common vascular complication after liver transplantation, occurring in 2–5% of liver transplant recipients. As such, HAT is a major cause of morbidity ...

The surgeon makes an incision, locates the hepatic artery, and inserts a catheter ... either curative surgery or potentially even a liver transplant," she says.

Liver transplant patients have the lowest rejection ... I will then tie off, then disconnect, the bile duct and hepatic artery - main structures connecting to the liver. Next I find the portal ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human ... from two sources: the hepatic artery bringing oxygenated blood ...