Liver Circulation and Common Duct Obstruction

Abstract

Summary

1. Excision of the hepatic artery combined with obstruction of the common bile duct has a high mortality. Administration of antibiotics was not able to prevent anaerobic growth and liver necrosis in some of these dogs. 2. If the above 2 procedures are performed in 2 stages, mortality is somewhat lower if excision of the hepatic artery is done first and obstruction of the common bile duct later, while performance of these procedures in reversed sequence has a very high mortality. 3. Obstruction of the portal vein and of the common bile duct, performed in one stage, is well tolerated. 4. The combination of excision of the hepatic artery and obstruction of the portal vein and of the common bile duct will ocassionally be survived by the dog.