Ch. 8 Vascular Flashcards
Winding and bending of the carotid artery
Tortuosity/kinking
With tortuosity, up to _____ of adults will have some degree of _____
1/4 (25%), angulation
Is tortuosity bilateral?
usually yes
Signs and symptoms of tortuosity
usually asymptomatic, may cause stroke or TIA,
head turning can cause symptoms, pulsatile mass
Color is a useful tool to appreciate the tortuous coarse of the _______ ICA
distal
With tortuosity, evaluation can be challenging because aliasing is likely present along
outer edges of curve or as vessel becomes more vertical (creating 0 degree doppler angles)
T/F: It is difficult to image entire tortuous vessel in one image
True
With tortuosity, doppler waveforms should be taken from
straighter portions of vessel when possible
Do you sample the area of the tightest curve in a tortuous vessel
No
What do you do if the doppler waveform must be taken from curved portion
angle is set so that middle of angle correct cursor is parallel to vessel walls / sample volume is to remain small / keep sample volume center stream
When doing doppler sample volume through the tortuous segment
pre and postcurve or kink velocities should be noted / flow changes may be documented with head rotation
Strict velocity criteria _____ be applied to tortuous vessels
cannot
_____ velocities _____ to curves and kinks are to be expected
increased, distal
Significant stenosis in tortuosity will be followed by
post stenotic turbulence
Separation of the layers of an artery due to intimal tear
dissections/intimal flaps
Dissections may be associated with
pseudoaneurysm, thrombus and/or second intimal tear
False lumen flow pattern variations include
antegrade flow with secondary tear /
antegrade flow into true lumen and out of the false lumen in a to-and-fro pattern / antegrade flow in the true lumen and retrograde flow in the false lumen
Dissections and intimal flaps usually originate from
aorta and extend into CCA
Dissections may be associated with other diseases such as
Marfan syndrome or ehler-danlos syndrome
Dissections can be
spontaneous or traumatic
Dissections associated with history of hypertension are
spontaneous
Dissections that are subtle from head rotation or obvious like blunt trauma
traumatic
______ may occur after endarterectomy
intimal flap
Dissections/intimal flaps signs and symptoms
asymptomatic /
head, face or neck pain /
hemispheric stroke or TIA symptoms /
young patients with stroke symptoms
Duplex findings associated with dissection include
unusual color flow pattern in an artery that shows no artherosclerosis /
presence of thin white line in vessel lumen / may flutter with each pulse
(dissection) blind ended tear appearance
low resistance doppler signal in true lumen / if false lumen is thrombosed then stentotic flow in true lumen / false lumen will demonstrate high-resistance flow patterns unless thrombosed / reversed/retrograde flow may be present in false lumen
(dissection) secondary tear appearance
blood allowed back into lumen / true and false lumen may demonstrate antegrade flow with different waveform contours / reversal of flow in either lumen
Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) apearance
abnormal growth of smooth muscle cells and fibrous issue in artery walls / narrowing of arterial lumen in multiple sections / slight aneurysm dilation may be noted in between stenotic sections
FMD causes a __________ appearance of artery on arteriography
“string of beads”
FMD signs and symptoms
young caucasin females / most common in renal arteries causing hypertension / ICA second most common
FMD in ICA signs and symptoms
often does not cause symptoms / cervical bruit (most common / emboli may occur and cause TIA
FMD bilateral disease is typical. T/F
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