Anatom3DAnterior superior segmental hepatic artery
Arteria segmenti anterioris superioris hepatis · Přední horní segmentová jaterní tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
The branch to segment VIII, the upper front part of the right liver under the diaphragm.
What it does
Supplies segment VIII of the liver.
Keeping it well
Tumours here can be treated by injecting chemotherapy or beads into this branch (chemoembolisation).
Related conditions
- Acute liver failure
- Acute porphyria
- Alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens
- Alcohol-related liver disease
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Bile duct cancer (cholangiocarcinoma)
- Biliary atresia
- Brucellosis
- Cirrhosis
- Dengue & mosquito-borne fevers
- Ebola virus disease
- Echinococcosis (hydatid disease)
- Eye melanoma (uveal melanoma)
- Gilbert's syndrome
- Haemochromatosis & Wilson's disease
- Hepatic encephalopathy
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Intestinal worms & schistosomiasis
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
- Kawasaki disease
- Leishmaniasis
- Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
- Liver abscess (pyogenic and amoebic)
- Liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma)
- Malaria
- Metabolic fatty liver disease (MASLD)
- Metabolic syndrome
- Myelofibrosis
- Newborn jaundice
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Phenylketonuria (PKU)
- Poisoning & overdose
- Portal vein thrombosis and Budd–Chiari syndrome
- Pre-eclampsia
- Primary biliary cholangitis
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Viral hepatitis (A, B, C, D, E)
- Yellow fever