What is a Vein Occlusion?
Complete and extensive obstruction of the portal vein is rare. The obstruction of one or more of its intrahepatic branches can cause infarction (Zahn infarction). Mostly, portal vein thrombosis or embolism is caused by liver and pancreatic diseases such as cirrhosis, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, etc., invading the intrahepatic portal vein, and suppurative peritonitis, and neonatal umbilical cord infection with suppuration.
Portal vein obstruction
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- Western Medicine Name
- Portal vein obstruction
- Affiliated Department
- Internal Medicine-Hematology
- Contagious
- Non-contagious
- Whether to enter health insurance
- no
- Complete and extensive obstruction of the portal vein is rare. The obstruction of one or more of its intrahepatic branches can cause infarction (Zahn infarction). Mostly, portal vein thrombosis or embolism is caused by liver and pancreatic diseases such as cirrhosis, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, etc., invading the intrahepatic portal vein, and suppurative peritonitis, and neonatal umbilical cord infection with suppuration.
- Rarely. Mostly due to liver and pancreatic diseases such as liver cirrhosis, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, etc.
- Zahn infarction, also known as atrophic red infarction, is a rare circulatory disorder in the liver. The lesions were predominantly local liver congestion rather than true infarction. The lesion area was round or rectangular, dark red, and the realm was clear. Microscopically, there is high congestion and bleeding in the central area of the liver lobules. Local liver cells atrophy, necrosis or disappear. This disease has no major impact on the body. Medical Education. Yunet collected and organized can become a source of intra-abdominal bleeding. New anastomotic branches around the blocked portal vein can be seen during the recovery period. [1]