Cardiovascular

Question 1

What intercostal space do you evaluate the cranial lobar vessels?

Answer 1

The fourth

Question 2

What set of cranial lobar vessels do you evaluate on the lateral projections?

Answer 2

The bigger ones or the non-dependent ones

Question 3

What are the causes for hypovascularity in the thorax?

Answer 3

Shock
Blood loss
Addison's
Severe pulmonic stenosis 
Right to left shunting
Tetrology of Fallot
Hyperinflation of the lungs
Emphysema

Question 4

Arteries that appear to terminate abruptly is called?

Answer 4

Truncation

Pruning

Question 5

What is the cause for truncation and pruning of the pulmonary arteries in dogs affected with heartworm?

Answer 5

Proliferation of the endothelium and occulsion of the smaller ends of the arteries secondary to fribrosis from chronic arteritis.

Question 6

Arterial enlargement can be noted in cats with what parasite?

Answer 6

Aelurostrongylus (lung worm)

Question 7

Acute bronchitis in dogs and cats often appears like what on thoracic radiographs?

Answer 7

Normal

Question 8

What are the two radiographic appearances of bronchiectasis?

Answer 8

Cylindrical

Saccular