Hepatic Artery Catheterization
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2025
The protocol provides a detailed introduction to the experience of using the right heart catheterization method to detect pulmonary artery pressure in rats, which will help to obtain accurate data more efficiently and improve the success rate of the experiment. This method also improves the reproducibility of experiments across different laboratories.
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Targeting Liver Tumors with Oncolytic Viruses via the Hepatic Artery
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2025
The video demonstrates locoregional delivery of oncolytic viruses through hepatic arterial injection as a therapeutic approach for hepatocellular carcinoma. These viruses selectively replicate in tumor cells, inducing cell lysis and releasing tumor cell-associated antigens. This process triggers immunogenic cell death, inducing an anti-tumor response.
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Seldinger Technique Based Pulmonary Artery Catheterization: A Procedure to Insert Pulmonary Artery Catheter Through the Jugular Vein in a Porcine Model
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2025
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Brachial Artery Catheterization in Swine
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2019
The video describes in detail the catheterization of the distal brachial artery in swine. This procedure accurately measures arterial blood pressure and is a simple and fast method to collect samples for arterial blood gas measurements.
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Surgical Procedures for a Rat Model of Partial Orthotopic Liver Transplantation with Hepatic Arterial Reconstruction
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2013
Orthotopic liver transplantation in rats is an indispensable experimental model for biomedical research. Here we present our surgical procedures for orthotopic rat liver transplantation with hepatic arterial reconstruction using a 50% partial graft.
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Selective catheter positioning allows clinicians to examine or treat the hepatic arterial territory rather than relying on a less targeted arterial study. Once the catheter reaches the celiac and hepatic arteries, clinicians can assess vascular anatomy, measure pressure, or deliver treatment through the same access route. This selectivity supports both diagnosis and intervention.
Fluoroscopy shows the catheter’s position and guides its movement through the arterial system. When contrast is injected, it outlines the hepatic vessels and makes blood flow visible, helping clinicians identify vascular anatomy and abnormal vessels. The resulting angiographic information can support tumor characterization, intervention planning, and selection of an appropriate treatment approach.
Pressure assessment adds functional information to the structural details obtained from angiography. With the catheter positioned in the hepatic arterial system, clinicians can evaluate pressure within the vessels as part of the examination. This measurement complements contrast-based imaging and may help characterize the vascular environment when planning or performing targeted treatment for liver disease.
The procedure begins with arterial access, commonly through the groin or wrist. Clinicians then advance the catheter under fluoroscopic guidance into the celiac artery and onward to the hepatic arteries. After positioning, they may inject contrast for angiography, assess arterial pressure, or use the catheter to deliver an intra-arterial treatment.
Clinicians may use this technique when they need detailed information about liver blood vessels or when a treatment must be directed through the hepatic arterial system. Supported uses include characterizing tumors, identifying abnormal vessels, assessing pressure, planning an intervention, and treating selected liver conditions with embolization or intra-arterial therapies.
After selective placement in the hepatic arterial system, the catheter can serve as a route for treatment rather than only for imaging. Embolization uses the access provided by the catheter to address selected vessels, while intra-arterial chemotherapy or radiologic agents can be delivered toward the liver. This approach concentrates treatment within the targeted arterial territory.
In medicine, the technique connects vascular diagnosis with minimally invasive treatment. Angiographic findings can reveal the arterial anatomy needed to plan an intervention, while selective access permits embolization or delivery of therapeutic agents during the same general approach. By directing treatment through the hepatic arteries, clinicians can limit exposure of surrounding tissues compared with less targeted delivery.