When indicated, management is directed towards stopping bleeding and relieving obstruction if present, which is achieved either by surgical ligation of hepatic artery or by endoscopic embolisation.
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Since the body's immune system attacks the virus, the agent is injected directly into the tumor or, in the case of metastatic liver cancer, into the hepatic artery.
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In an effort to reduce the likelihood of significant hepatic toxicity, chemoembolization should be restricted to a single lobe or major branch of the hepatic artery at one time.
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One-and-a-half-times life-size with color-coded vascular system ( gall bladder and bile ducts are green, hepatic artery and its branches vermilion ), this replica stands more than a foot high.
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The treatment involves injecting standard chemotherapy drugs directly into the hepatic artery, which supplies blood to the liver, rather than the usual method of putting the drugs into a vein.
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Once the branch of the hepatic artery supplying the tumor is identified and the tip of the catheter is selectively placed within the artery, the 90 Y microspheres are infused.
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The hepatic artery carries oxygen-rich blood from the aorta, whereas the portal vein carries blood rich in digested nutrients from the entire gastrointestinal tract and also from the spleen and pancreas.
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Sigurdson et al . demonstrated that when an agent was infused via the hepatic artery, intratumoral concentrations were ten times greater compared to when agents were administered through the portal vein.
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The lesser curvature gives attachment to the two layers of the hepatogastric ligament, and between these two layers are the left gastric artery and the right gastric branch of the hepatic artery.
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The Arizona patient, Jesse Gelsinger died four days after doctors at the University of Pennsylvania injected a corrective gene, encased in a deactivated adenovirus, into the hepatic artery, which leads to the liver.
