Anatom3DAnterior inferior segmental hepatic artery
Arteria segmenti anterioris inferioris hepatis · Přední dolní segmentová jaterní tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
The branch to segment V, the lower front part of the right liver near the gallbladder.
What it does
Supplies segment V of the liver.
Keeping it well
Close to the gallbladder bed; at risk in gallbladder surgery.
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