Hepatic artery thrombosis (HAT) is the most common vascular complication after liver transplantation, occurring in 2–5% of liver transplant recipients. As such, HAT is a major cause of morbidity ...

This means medicine put into the hepatic artery goes quickly to your liver tumors, and very little reaches your healthy liver cells. Systemic chemotherapy, the type given through an intravenous (IV) ...

Katherine Poruk, a surgical oncologist at Mayo Clinic, says a specialized therapy known as hepatic artery infusion pump ... while the rest of the body avoids common chemotherapy side effects ...