Portal Venous System

Question 1

What is the only nutrient that doesn’t pass through the portal system to the liver?

Answer 1

fat

Question 2

What is fat picked up by?

Answer 2

lymphatic vessels of small intestine called lacteals and bypass liver

Question 3

What does the portal venous system do?

Answer 3

drains gastrointestinal tract, spleen, pacreas, and gallbladder

Question 4

What is the blood flow of the portal venous system?

Answer 4

from abdominal organs
to tributaries of portal vein
to portal vein, which divides into left and right branches
to liver sinusoids
to inferior vena cava via hepatic veins

Question 5

What does the caval venous system do?

Answer 5

drains everything else like kidney and suprarenal gland

Question 6

What is the blood flow of the caval venous system?

Answer 6

from body wall and organs
to tributaries of superior and inferior vena cava
to superior and inferior vena cava

Question 7

What forms the portal vein?

Answer 7

splenic vein and superior mesenteric vein

Question 8

What are the tributaries of the splenic vein?

Answer 8

short gastric veins
left gastro-omental vein
pancreatic veins
inferior mesenteric vein

Question 9

What are the tributaries of the inferior mesenteric vein?

Answer 9

left colic vein
sigmoid vein
superior rectal vein

Question 10

What forms the inferior mesenteric vein?

Answer 10

sigmoid vein and superior rectal vein

Question 11

What are the tributaries of the superior mesenteric vein?

Answer 11

jejunal and ileal veins
ileocolic vein
right colic vein
middle colic vein
right gastro-omental vein
pancreaticoduodenal veins

Question 12

Because of arrangement of portal system, colon cancer affects the liver? true or false?

Answer 12

true

Question 13

What are the tributaries of the portal vein?

Answer 13

splenic vein
superior mesenteric vein
left gastric vein
paraumbilical vein

Question 14

What is the only tribute of the portal vein that doesn’t accompany an artery of the same name?

Answer 14

paraumbilical vein