Anatom3DLateral inferior segmental hepatic artery
Arteria segmenti lateralis inferioris hepatis · Laterální dolní segmentová jaterní tepna
Heart & arteries
Looks like
The branch to segment III, the lower outer part of the left liver.
What it does
Supplies segment III of the liver.
Keeping it well
Targeted in catheter treatment of tumours in this segment.
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