Lateral segmental hepatic artery
Arteria segmenti lateralis hepatis · Laterální segmentová jaterní tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
A branch of the left hepatic artery to the outer left liver (segments II and III).
What it does
Supplies the left lateral section of the liver.
Keeping it well
This section is used in living-donor liver transplants to children; its artery is carefully preserved.
Its parts
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