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Question 1

What is a portal system?

Answer 1

A portal system is a system of vessels in which blood traveling through one capillary bed passes through a second capillary network before it returns to the systemic circulation.

Question 2

What is the hepatic portal system?

Answer 2

The hepatic portal system consists of nutrient-rich blood from the intestinal capillaries passing through the hepatic portal vein and then hepatic capillaries (sinusoids) to the hepatic veins.

Question 3

How does blood travel through the hepatic portal system?

Answer 3

In the hepatic portal system blood travels from the intestinal capillaries to the hepatic portal vein then through hepatic capillaries (sinusoids) and finally to the hepatic veins.

Question 4

What happens to the blood after it leaves the hepatic veins?

Answer 4

hepatic veins will pass the blood
to IVC and systemic circulation.