NUR 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Portal Vein, Lobules Of Liver, Hepatic Veins
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Cirrhosis: it"s a liver disease where liver cells become extremely damaged due to long term/severe damage. This leads to the damaged cells being replaced with fibrous tissue, hence, scarring of the liver. Role of the liver (helps to understand the complications and nursing interventions): In a nutshell, the liver takes substances in our blood and metabolizes and detoxifies them along with storing and producing substances to help with digestion, clotting, and immune health. In other words, it is so very important for our survival. When it stops working every system in our body struggles! The organs connected to the hepatic portal vein are: small/large intestine, pancreas, spleen, stomach, second source: hepatic artery: it delivers rich oxygenate blood that just came from the heart to the liver, but it"s poor in nutrients. These two blood supplies mix together as they enter the functional units of the liver called the liver lobules (there are thousands of them in the liver).
