Anatom3DHepatic veins
Venae hepaticae · Jaterní žíly
Veins
Looks like
Three short wide veins running straight from the liver into the great vein just under the diaphragm.
What it does
Drain all the blood that has passed through the liver back to the heart.
Keeping it well
Nothing routine; when they block, the liver swells and fluid fills the belly.
Its parts
- Right hepatic vein
- Left hepatic vein
- Anterior superior segmental tributary of hepatic vein
- Lateral inferior segmental tributary of hepatic vein
- Lateral superior segmental tributary of hepatic vein
- Medial superior segmental tributary of hepatic vein
- Posterior inferior segmental tributary of hepatic vein
- Posterior superior segmental tributary of hepatic vein
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
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Cirrhosis
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Dengue & mosquito-borne fevers
- Ebola virus disease
- Echinococcosis (hydatid disease)
- Eye melanoma (uveal melanoma)
- Gilbert's syndrome
- Haemochromatosis & Wilson's disease
- Hepatic encephalopathy
- High cholesterol
- Intestinal worms & schistosomiasis
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
- 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
- Phenylketonuria (PKU)
- Poisoning & overdose
- Portal vein thrombosis and Budd–Chiari syndrome
- Primary biliary cholangitis
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Varicose veins
- Viral hepatitis (A, B, C, D, E)
- Yellow fever