Hepatofugal Portal Venous Flow: From Normal to Pathological

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Anca Dragean Emmanuel Coche Margaux Collard Marin Halut

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Margaux Collard
Department of Imaging, St Luc Univeristy Hospital, Avenue Hippocrate 10, 1200 Brussels, Belgium

A B S T R A C T

Whether segmental or diffuse, a hepatofugal blood flow is almost always pathological. Over the years, Doppler ultrasonography has retained its position as one of the most accessible and physiological imaging techniques to evaluate the direction of the portal blood flow. Detection of a reverse flow is important as it may change patient care and outcome.

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Research Article

Publication history

Received: Fri 02, Aug 2019
Accepted: Wed 21, Aug 2019
Published: Sat 31, Aug 2019

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© 2023 Margaux Collard. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.RDI.2019.03.10