What is the lobe Caudate?
Caudate lobe is a small lobe in the back of the liver. This can be found between the left lobe of the liver and the lower vena Cava (IVC), the large veins at the bottom of the body, which helps transport deoxygenated blood to the right hall in the heart. Blood supply can enter the caudate lobe from the left or right branch of the portal vein, a small vein to transfer blood to the liver. Caudate LALOK sits in an almost vertical position.
It is located opposite the center of the vertebral column, the Lob Caudate is bound by the fiber material known as the ligamentum venosum. It is bounded at the bottom through a hole called Porta, which leads to the body cavity. On the left is the lobe caudate bounded by a concave surface called Fossa, which separates the liver from the gallbladder.
On the lobe of Caudate there are five surfaces: the right plane, the ventral boundary of the plane, the left surface, the surface without Hilar and the dorsal. Many surgeons also recognize two different parts to lobeCaudate: Spiegel's lobe and Paracaval part. Speigel's lobe is located on the left and flows from the bile canals into the right heptic canal or its branches. On the right, Paracaval part of the lobe forms a flat plane that extends the length of the caudate lobe. There is no significant boundary between the two parts.
Unlike other lobes of the liver, Caudate lobe is directly associated with IVC small veins known as heptic veins that move deoxygenated blood. These veins are separated from the main heptic veins in the liver. For this reason, the lobe Caudate can respond to the disease other than the rest of the liver. Due to its unusual position, Caudate can experience hypertrophy, which is an unusual growth of cells in tissue and organ, except the rest of the TON liver.
Some conditions that can cause hypertrophy include cirrhosis, congenital liver fibrosis and Budd-Chahari syndrome. Cirhosis is the scarring of the liver due to liver disease. It is primarily caused by alcoholism. Congenital liver fibrosis isGenetic liver disease, which usually consists of tension in portal veins that lead to the lobe of Caudate. Budd-Chahari syndrome is a disease where the heptic veins are blocked, thus preventing blood flow to the liver.