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Vascular Surgery Flashcards

1
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What is the screening of AAA?

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Single Abdo US at aged 65

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What is the screening outcomes for AAA?

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<3cm - Normal
3cm - 4.4cm - Rescan every 12 months
4.4 - 5.4cm - Rescan every 3 months
5.5cm - Refer within 2 weeks for intervention

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What are high rupture risks for AAA?

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  • Symptomatic
  • Rapidly enlarging: >1cm every year
  • Needs referral within 2 weeks for vascular intervention
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How is AAA treated?

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  • Treat with EVAR or open repair if unsuitable
  • If evidence of rupture, immediate vascular review with emergency surgery needed
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5
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What causes venous leg ulcers?

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  • Mostly due to venous HTN due to chronic venous insufficiency
  • Above the ankle and painless
  • Managed with compression banding or surgery
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What are arterial ulcers?

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  • Occur on the toes and heel
  • Have a deep, punched out appearance
  • Painful
  • Low ABPI measurements
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What are the 3 main presentations of PAD?

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  • Intermittent claudication
  • Critical limb ischaemia
  • Acute limb-threatening ischaemia
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What are the features of limb-threatening ischaemia

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Pain, pallor, pulseless, paraesthesia, paralysis, perishing cold

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How to investigate limb-threatening ischaemia?

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  • Handheld arterial doppler FIRST
  • ABPI
  • Assess whether this is due to thrombus or embolus (AF)
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How is limb-threatening ischaemia managed?

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  • Vascular review
  • Analgesia + IV Heparin
  • Angioplasty/Intra-arterial thrombolysis
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What is critical limb ischaemia?

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  • Rest pain in foot for more than 2 weeks
  • Ulceration
  • Gangrene
  • Hang legs out of bed at night to help with pain
  • ABPI < 0.5
  • Tx includes manage risk factors
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What is intermittent claudication?

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  • Aching or burning in muscles after walking
  • Relieved by stopping and not present at rest
  • Check foot pulses, ABPI, US scan
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How is peripheral arterial disease managed?

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  • Stop smoking
  • Atorvastatin 80mg
  • Clopidogrel
  • Exercise training
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14
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Management options for PAD?

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Endovascular revascularization: angioplasty used for short stenosis, high risk patients
Surgical revascularization: surgical bypass used for long lesions, multifocal lesions

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What is superficial thrombophlebitis?

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  • Inflammation/thrombosis of one of the superficial veins: long saphenous vein
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What is immediate management of suspected superficial thrombophlebitis?

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US scan to exclude DVT

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What are other management options for superficial thrombophlebitis?

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  • NSAIDs
  • Compression stockings
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18
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What are varicose veins?

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Dilated, superficial veins which occur secondary to incompetent venous valves - commonest in great saphenous and small saphenous vein

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What are risk factors for varicose veins?

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  • Increasing age
  • Female
  • Pregnancy
  • Obesity
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How should varicose veins be investigated?

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Venous duplex US which will show retrograde venous flow

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21
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How are varicose veins managed?

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  • Leg elevation, weight loss, compression stockings
  • Refer if ulcers, troublesome symptoms
22
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What is an arterial aneurysm?

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Abnormal dilatation to more than 150% of the original diametes of the blood vessel due to weakness in the vessel wall

23
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True vs false aneurysm

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True - abnormal dilatation of the vessel
False - collection of blood around the vessel

24
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What is the number needed to screen?

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A number needed to screen is a reference to the number of patients who will need to be screened by the program me to prevent one excess death /morbidity

25
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Causes of AAA

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  • Ehlers-Danlos/Marfans
  • Atheromatous degeneration
26
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What are disadvantages of using EVAR?

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  • Long term follow up needed
  • Not suitable for every type of aneurysm
  • High reintervention rate
27
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What is trash foot?

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Cholesterol embolism which occurs after vascular surgery where debris is shed and lodges in distal vessels causing local ischaemia

28
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When does irreversible tissue ischaemic occur?

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Within 6 hours

29
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How does heparin work?

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Activates anti-thrombin III which inactivates Xa preventing the clotting cascade

30
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What type of pain will be in compartment syndrome?

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Pain on dorsiflexion

31
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Acute limb ischaemia with no history of claudication?

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Think embolic cause -> AF rather than smoking

32
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What are ABPI results?

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1 - Normal
0.6 - 0.9 - Claudication
0.3 - 0.6 - Rest pain (critical limb)
<0.3 - impending concerns

33
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What are causes of AAA?

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  • Marfans
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Ehlers-Danlos
  • Abdo trauma
34
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What is Virchow’s triad?

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  • Endothelial injury (trauma, surgery)
  • Stasis of blood flow (AF, immobility)
  • Hypercoagulability (pregnancy, malignancy)
35
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What are some chronic venous changes which can occur?

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  • Varicose veins
  • Varicose eczema
  • Lipodermatosclerosis
36
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What are the 2 classification systems for aortic dissection?

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Stanford
De Bakey

37
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Varicose vein + venous ulcer?

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Refer to vascular

38
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What is permisive hypotension?

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Strategy used in the resus of bleeding trauma patients - advocates for cautious use of fluid as large increases in BP can lead to clot formation, tear the aorta or increase blood loss

39
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What is the 2 classifications of varicose veins?

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Primary - degeneration of valve leaflets
Secondary - valve destruction

40
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What are risk factors for varicose veins?

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  • Female
  • Pregnancy
  • Pelvic/Abdominal mass
  • FH
41
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Early vs late signs of compartment syndrome

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Early - pain out of proportion to injury, absent pulse, swelling
Late - paralysis, pale limb, cold limb

42
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ABPI > 1 can indicate what?

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Calcified, stiff arteries - commonly seen in diabetes

43
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How do neuropathic ulcers form?

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Commonly due to increased pressure e.g tight fitting shoes or unnoticed trauma and will be painless

44
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Claudication in femoral vessels vs iliac vessels?

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Femoral - Calf pain
Iliac - Buttock pain

45
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What is a non pharmacological management option for PAD?

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Exercise training

46
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Patients with diabetes with PVD can get what?

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Falsely high ABPI measurements due to abnormal hardening of the arteries

47
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Dry gangrene vs wet gangrene?

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Dry is a complication of critical limb ischaemic where the tissue necroses
Wet - infection of the dry

48
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Embolic vs thrombotic cause of acute ischaemia?

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Embolic will develop over minutes whereas thrombotic will develop over hours - days

49
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What programme should be offered to all those with intermittent claudication?

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Supervised exercise programme

50
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What is a paradoxical embolus?

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Where a VTE travels through inferior vena cava and then crosses septal defect to enter left heart circulation and cause an arterial embolus

51
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Long saphenous system vs short saphenous system?

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Long - side of long toe - medial malleolus
Short - side of short toe - lateral malleolus

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