Anatom3DLiver
Hepar · Játra
Digestive system
Looks like
The largest internal organ: a 1.5 kg dark-red wedge under the right ribs.
What it does
Cleans the blood, makes bile and clotting proteins, and stores fuel.
Keeping it well
Alcohol dose is what matters; the liver repairs itself until scarring sets in. Hepatitis B vaccination prevents an infection that causes liver cancer. Paracetamol is safe at label dose; an overdose can destroy the liver.
Its parts
- Right lobe
- Left lobe
- Caudate & quadrate lobes
- Ligamentum venosum
- Porta hepatis
- Hepatocytes & lobules
- Portal triad
- Hepatic portal vein
- Hepatic veins
- Biliary tree
- Hepatic artery proper
- Right hemiliver
- Left hemiliver
- Caudal pancreatic artery
- Dorsal pancreatic artery
- Duct of caudate lobe of liver
- Great pancreatic artery
- Hepatovenous segment ix
- Lobe branch of hepatic artery
- Medial inferior segmental tributary of middle hepatic vein
- Tributary of middle 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)
- Gallbladder cancer
- Gallstones
- 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)
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Viral hepatitis (A, B, C, D, E)
- Yellow fever