Question

1. What is a vascular anastomosis? Give examples.

2. What is a portal circuit (also called a portal system)? Understand how the hepatic portal circuit/system works specifically.

Answer 1

1. Vascular anastomosis is the surgical procedure used to connect the blood vessels to each other. The examples are Coronary artery bypass surgery to treat a block in the artery that is supplied into the heart and connecting an artery to a vein of hemodialyisis access.

2. The portal system or circuit is a system or circuit of blood vessels that begins and ends in capillaries. The hepatic system or circuit carries the nutrients that are absorbed from the digestion to the liver to store the nutrients and metabolise after having a meal.