ABDOMINAL VASCULATURE Flashcards
THE MOST COMMON THEORIZED CAUSE OF AAA IS
ATERIOSCLEROTIC DISEASE
MOST AORTIC ANUERYSMS ARE IN THE _____ AORTA
DISTAL (INFRARENAL)
__________ BY DEFNITION, ARE A FOCAL DILATION WITH AT LEAST A __% INCREASE OVER AORTIC DIAMETER
ANEURYSMS
_____ AND ____ ARTERY ANEURYSMS ARE COMMONLY ASSOCIATED WITH AORTIC ANEURYSMS
ILIAC AND POPLITEAL
THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF FALSE AORTIC ANEURYSMS IS
TRAUMA
_________________ ARE COMMONLY ASSOCIATED WITH ANGIOGRAPHIC PUNCTURES OR SURGICAL ANASTOMOSES
PSEUDOANEURYSMS
A ______ WAVEFORM IS SEEN AT THE STALK, CONNECTING THE PSEUDOANEURYSM TO THE NATIVE ARTERY
BIDIRECTIONAL
A _____ IS A SEPARATION OF THE INTIMA FROM THE MEDIA OF THE AORTIC
DISSECTION
-SURGICAL REPAIR OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS
-INTERTED INTO THE GROIN AND DEPLORED WITHIN AORTA
-TYPICALLY IN ANEURYSM IS INFRARENAL
ENDOVASCULAR STENT GRAFT
THIS SYNDROME REFERS TO THE COMPRESSION OF THE LEFT COMMON ILIAC VEIN AGAINST THE LUMBAR VERTEBRAE BY THE OVERLYING RT COMMON ILIAC ARTERY INCREASING RISK OF DVT IN THE LT EXTREMITY
MAY-THURNER SYNDROME
-PRESENTS AS RECURRING POSTPRANDIAL ABD PAIN AND WEIGHT LOSS
-CAN OCCUR IN PT WITH PREVIOUS ABDOMINAL SURGERY THAT HAS INTERRUPTED IMPORTANT VESSELS
MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA
MESENTERIC ARTERY STENOSIS CRITERIA
SMA VELOCITY > ____ CM/SEC
CA VELOCITY> _____ CM/SEC
275
200
THIS IS COMPRESSION OF THE PROXIMAL CELIAC AXIS BY THE MEDIAN ARCUATE LIGAMENT OF THE DIAPHRAGM
CELIAC AXIS COMPRESSION ALSO KNOWN AS MEDIAN ARCUATE LIGAMENT COMPRESSION SYDROME
______ SYNDROME IS WHEN THE LEFT RENAL V IS COMPRESSED BETWEEN THE SMA AND AORTA
-ASSOCIATED WITH HEMATURIA AND LT FLANK PAIN
NUTCRACKER
A AV SHUNT WILL PRODUCE A ______ VELOCITY, _____ RESISTANCE WAVEFORM
HIGH,LOW
