| 21. | Damaged and dying flukes can be trapped in the liver and cause fatal portal vein thrombosis.
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| 22. | The liver is connected to two large blood vessels : the hepatic artery and the portal vein.
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| 23. | Since this is an important function in mammals, damage to the hepatic portal vein can be dangerous.
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| 24. | Pylephlebitis is infection of the portal vein, usually arising from an infectious intraabdominal process such as diverticulosis.
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| 25. | Occasionally, the portal vein also directly communicates with the inferior mesenteric vein, although this is highly variable.
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| 26. | Venous blood from the ileum goes straight into the portal vein and then into the liver sinusoids.
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| 27. | Portal veins carry blood between capillary beds.
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| 28. | The tumor had reached out, grasping the liver's portal vein, the main vein that drains blood from the liver.
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| 29. | The liver absorbs a proportion of the glucose from the blood in the portal vein coming from the intestines.
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| 30. | He was diagnosed with colon diverticulitis and a severe blood clot in his portal vein, but in stable condition.
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