Splenic Circulation Animation

Your heart is a pump.

Splenic circulation animation. The pulp acts as filter for separating rbc. Splenic infarct forms when there is deprivation of blood flow to one or more small areas within the spleen. The three major arteries that supply the splanchnic organs cellac and superior and inferior mesenteric give rise to smaller arteries that anastomose extensively. Phagocytes of the pulp remove the foreign particles from the blood.

It removes old red blood cells and holds a reserve of blood which can be valuable in case of. The splenic artery is along with the gastric and common hepatic arteries one of the three main branches of the celiac artery. Heart and circulatory system. The celiac artery branches from the abdominal aorta the largest.

The peculiarities that have been encountered in the splenic circulation are the presence of both open and closed circulation. Pulp also acts as blood reservoir yet its function as such in human beings. As mentioned before the blockage in the blood circulation can be due to clots conditions such as infected heart valves artificial heart valves hypercoagulable states trauma to the spleen cancer and its metastasis. The spleen is an organ found in virtually all vertebratessimilar in structure to a large lymph node it acts primarily as a blood filterthe word spleen comes from ancient greek splhn spln.

The spleen plays important roles in regard to red blood cells erythrocytes and the immune system. A number of important functions depend on its normal operation including digestion and absorption within the gut maintenance of the mucosal barrier and successful healing of surgical anastomoses but we have little quantitative information about its physiology because routine measurement in humans is so difficult. Bothina labib phd london university with cooperation of pro. Its a muscular organ about the size of your fist and located slightly left of center in your chest.

Histological structure function of spleen blood supply splenic circulation. The splanchnic circulation is composed of gastric small intestinal colonic pancreatic hepatic and splenic circulations arranged in parallel with one another. Together your heart and blood vessels make up your cardiovascular system which circulates blood and oxygen around your body. The spleenliver ratio measured with 99m tc labelled sulphur.