High blood glucose, also called blood sugar, can harm your baby during the first weeks of pregnancy, even before you know you are pregnant. If you have diabetes and are already pregnant, see your doctor as soon as possible to make a plan to manage your diabetes.
These are the only veins in the body that carry fresh, oxygenated blood. Blood leaves the heart from the left ventricle through the artery called the aorta. The aorta has several branches into other arteries that are carrying blood away from the heart and to the body tissues.
Blood Supply to the Liver and Gallbladder. The liver is unique among organs in that it receives blood via two distinct circulatory routes: systemic circulation and hepatic portal circulation. Each of these routes provides blood of differing compositions that allow the liver to perform its unique and vital digestive and metabolic functions. Oxygenated blood leaving the heart first passes through the aorta, which descends from the thorax into the abdomen as the abdominal aorta.... Click to read more below.