Postnatal changes in the portal circulation.
Open Access
- 1 December 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 41 (220), 606-612
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.41.220.606
Abstract
Immediately after birth the liver is deprived of the substantial umbilical blood flow. The portal venous pressure falls to about 1/4 of the umbilical venous pressure at birth. However, the pressure gradient between the portal vein and inferior vena cava remains constant.Keywords
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