[Experimental hepatic ischemia].

Total clamping of the hepatic pedicle was performed for a period of two hours in the normothermic pig. During this time an external pulsed spleno-jugular shunt ensured effective-portal decompression. Under such conditions, the biological and histological consequences of this ischaemia were minimal and perfectly compatible with survival. This would suggest that the clinical syndrome of "shock liver" above all reflects splanchnic impairment.